Sentences with phrase «cognitive dissonance over»

If a climate scientist of the activist / advocate stripe doesn't feel some cognitive dissonance over their own personal carbon footprint, well it is difficult to defend against a charge of hypocrisy.

What's odd is that people are having such cognitive dissonance over this phenomenon that they ignore evidence in plain view.

The amount of people in the comments that have felt some cognitive dissonance over this speaks to that.

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A cognitive dissonance occurs over sampling sizes in quantitative areas such as market research.

Look up «Psychological Projection» and then you'll get a hint at the total made - up absurdities that humans have created over thousands of years in order to understand something that is beyond understanding along with their minds over rationalizing events that in a time without the understandings of basic science, they used imagination to ease their fear based cognitive dissonance.

Wonder what Rush will have to say about this one... Operation Chaos is over, Operation Cognitive Dissonance has begun.

This power of belief over evidence is the result of two factors: cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect.

These only feed the cognitive dissonance — the confusion — of those whose real experience tells them a very different story, making them more likely to imitate the violent forms of feedback they are already witnessing on the news or over the Internet.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.