Sentences with phrase «dissonance at»

It's tough to unpack the idea that you're a cop gunning down both criminals and other cops in this post-Ferguson landscape, but the effortless plot helps to keep that dissonance at bay.

Unless there is some cognitive dissonance at work, I'm pretty sure that the hub in Banjo - Tooie was larger than most of the game hubs made by Nintendo in future generations, excepting the Zelda games.

This is cognitive dissonance at its finest.

Cognitive dissonance at its finest!

ANthing to keep the cognitive dissonance at bay, huh?

The students suffered the same sorts of pressures, anxieties and moral dissonance at the Christian school as at my school.

Religion is really about psychology, trying to keep cognitive dissonances at bay, ambiguity (in) tolerance, and the need for cognitive closure.

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As many users have pointed out, Twitter doubled the character (from 140 to 280) count at a time when there is rampant hate speech and a general tone of confrontation and dissonance on what is a relatively small social media platform.

At best, that dissonance is the difference between theory and practice; at worst, it's the difference between a lie and the trutAt best, that dissonance is the difference between theory and practice; at worst, it's the difference between a lie and the trutat worst, it's the difference between a lie and the truth.

Additionally, policymakers had previously acknowledged rate cuts» ineffectiveness at pushing down term premium at the start of Great Recession, but «tantrum fears» had subsequently fueled «policy cognitive dissonance» to argue otherwise during policy normalization.

'' In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.»

At some point the evidence outweighs the fantasy unless you're adept at cognitive dissonancAt some point the evidence outweighs the fantasy unless you're adept at cognitive dissonancat cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance gradually gave way to tangible forms of leaving, and leaving turned, at times, into exile.

Equally, conginitive dissonance can result in those opposed to the church even to the potint of not perceiving any good in it when faced with obvious good that happens in churches or para church organisations for example city missions throughtout the world feeding and being a freind to the homeless at Christmas.

cognitive dissonance refers to the ability to hold two conflicting viewpoints at the same time.

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.

And it strikes me as a poor choice for introducing listeners to Ellington, as it belongs to the more self - consciously artier side of his work, which of course all real Ellington fans learn to appreciate, but which at times can repel initial listeners, particularly some of the pieces that veer into formlessness or pointless modern dissonances.

The book is a brilliant presentation of the cognitive dissonance that results from a faulty education, especially for a historian who continues to be hounded by the models of harmony he found at Chartres Cathedral and in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

I was walking, talking, living proof of research that indicates those who cheat are pretty good at finding ways to deal with their cognitive dissonance; in other words, they're good at rationalizing and justifying their bad behavior.

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies from adults as well as behavioral studies with older babies (12) showed that human infants tested at 7 months perceive sensory dissonance similar to adults (53), that infants prefer to listen to consonant intervals (11, 30) and appear to discriminate consonant and dissonant music shortly after birth (28).

If you call yourself a progressive Democrat and endorse the idea of an empowered IDC, you are guilty of cognitive dissonance (at best) or pernicious self - interest (at worst).

This isn't to say voters aren't moved by refugees» plight, but they are experiencing «cognitive dissonance» — holding two mutually exclusive opinions at the same time.

In the case of cognitive dissonance, the benefit is functional: the ability to reduce dissonance is what lets us sleep at night and maintain our behavior, secure that our beliefs, decisions and actions are the right ones.

When Shahzad identified this dissonance and began looking at what resources were out there, he realized all the existing dating services were incredibly expensive, old - fashioned, awkward, and provided an overall unpleasant user experience.

While a charming on - screen presence, at ease singing on a train or playing football, these segments lead to some narrative dissonance.

An early scene where they make goo - goo eyes at one another while a military casket emerges from the belly of a plane he's just flown in on doesn't bode well for the taste or tonal dissonance of what's to come.

At this point, a course in science or math that doesn't include some code is in pretty serious dissonance with the work that STEM professionals actually do.

Cognitive dissonance is the holding of two diametrically opposed ideas at the same time and believing both of them equally.

The 3.8 - liter V - 6 grunts and howls with a dissonance that vibrates the dashboard at high revs, the shifter is a little balky, and the ride is jarring.

In Boxers — the first volume in a two - book set, concluding with Saints (2013)-- about the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century in China, he looses twin voices in harmony and dissonance from opposite sides of the bloody conflict.

One of the novel's flaws, however, is that this same dissonance can at times be jarring, as the story frequently stops then precariously lurches forward.

Here is Jones in a concomitant blog post, Authors in publishing, getting at the dissonance we're about to visit.

And I'm good enough at cognitive dissonance — and betting you are, too — to believe it's worth our asking what it might do to our reading while being excited by the possibilities it may bring us.

This dissonance in risk perception in theory and in practice is what leads to investors reducing risk at market bottoms and increasing risk at market tops.

People who look at their portfolios frequently are the ones who get hit by ill - effects of cognitive dissonance heavily.

«I played Donkey Kong Country and marveled at the cognitive dissonance between what I remember (incredible graphics) and what I was looking at today (not incredible graphics).»

I'd still much rather be able to venture where I want at any time in Skyrim, but for the likes of Tomb Raider, a character and narrative driven game, the concept of ludonarrative dissonance is an important one.

It was, to be fair, an understandable assumption as it is often violent games that are guilty of narrative dissonance, most usually due to having some character that magically becomes awesome at using weapons.

Dissonance in video games is quite common, whether it's gratifying gameplay at odds with rudimentary visuals or a promising premise draped around stereotypical characters.

For all its faults in characterizing Skull Face, tonal dissonance with Ground Zeroes, and a generally simplistic plot, The Phantom Pain's first chapter was at least thematically cohesive.

It's always curious to look back at old games and feel that dissonance between what you remember being state of the art and what your eyes are now telling you is muddy, blocky, or just plain low - res.

But ludonarrative dissonance is present in most story - based video games at this point.

TO be clear: I think the fact that Bioshock: Infinite is a First Person Shooter hampers it and leads it to all kinds of internal contradictions which are interesting, they're the kinds of contradictions than generally get filed under the name ludonarrative dissonance, when a video game's story and its actual mechanics are at odds.

The exhibition will be on view from November 20th, 2014 through January 10th, 2015 at Steven Kasher Gallery, exploring the connections / dissonances of artists from the Studio School across generations.

The piece, choreographed over the summer of 1953 while Cunningham was in residence at the college, includes movement vocabulary that was to become key to his distinct style: sustained poses, controlled and rigid bodies, disconnected movements, and intended dissonance between the music and movements.

On a dark and chilly top floor, a hologram of Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster in the guise of the opera singer Maria Callas (OPERA [QM.15], 2016) produces an eerie dissonance between a spectral body seen at a distance and the disembodied proximity of Callas's voice.

Martohardjono developed the workshop and performance in response to the dissonance they felt while at an artist residency in a peaceful pastoral setting (the Shandaken Project at Storm King), during the turbulent weeks following the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

Uncertain States offers an expanded look at a series of major installations by an emerging generation of artists whose source material derives from a media - saturated world and a canny knowledge of new art - historical references (from Richard Prince and Christopher Wool, among others) in an age of political dissonance and free - form use of material innovations and juxtapositions.

The 2013 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art celebrates art as play, experimentation and dissonance, welcoming difference as an alternative to the standardization of cultural production.

Assonances and dissonances such as this, occurring at every scale and within every subset of the whole, create an experience so laden with meaning that one is spared dwelling on questions about the work's facture or the artist's biography or theoretical agenda.