Sentences with phrase «dissonance makes»

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The ethical reasons can be powerful for many, however for some cognitive dissonance makes some turn away.

Thats not to say I like seeing you being attacked, but having some dissonance makes the so called choir so much more beautiful and gives it a dimension of depth.

And sonic dissonance makes it hard to pray.

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The same term would certainly apply to Whole Foods itself right now: The company is in a period of dissonance, one that makes the attacks on its Responsibly Grown program seem like small organic purple potatoes.

For when Father Freelance scratches his itch to show just how congregation - friendly he is by making what he imagines are nifty changes to the Mass text, he instantly sets up sonic dissonance for anyone with a reasonably well - tuned ear.

some church people get rid of the embarrassingly high notes and eliminate all dramatic tension and dissonance, making Muzak out of the symphony.

Negative arousals make people out to be less positive therefore the dumbing down of the species becomes the pragmatic venues of damning perplexity's dissonances.

What can we make of such dissonance?

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.

In brief, on the interactionist view, metaphors are made possible when two (or more) concepts are joined in a sentence and the joining exhibits a dissonance.

All this makes for an experience where you as a viewer are in tune to the slightest dissonance between actor and setting.

Beliefs that have serious dissonance with experience or that dysserve (a made up spelling) living: and you wan to hold on to them?

The ambient dissonance is what makes him the player he is.

Sometimes this dissonance and the guilt that comes on its heels can make me want to turn away — just recycle once in a while and throw 25 extra bucks in the envelope with my museum membership and call it a day.

This is done by making changes to justify their stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and / or contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.

We talk briefly about the weird dissonance between the SNP's long - standing demand that decision about Scotland are made in Scotland and their support for the EU.

This makes it easier for everyone involved to maintain cognitive dissonance, since everyone knows everyone else is cheating and if the regulators don't know everyone is cheating that's their fault.

Instead of admitting error, «members of the group sought frantically to convince the world of their beliefs,» and they made «a series of desperate attempts to erase their rankling dissonance by making prediction after prediction in the hope that one would come true.»

In their 2007 book Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), two social psychologists, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (a former student of Festinger), document thousands of experiments demonstrating how people spin - doctor facts to fit preconceived beliefs to reduce dissonance.

Editor's Note: This blog post was corrected on September 10, 2015, to make clear that workers in caring professions are likely to experience less dissonance than baristas or fast food employees, not more.

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.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Whatever minor dissonance may be created by the occasional wrong note, it's more than made up for by gameplay that's simple, fun, and insanely addictive.

That kind of dissonance between classic family hijinks and twisted debauchery is exactly what makes The Detour such a fantastic ride.

Seeing him attempt something so sincere, so rooted in human behavior instead of screwball goofs, makes for a strange yet welcome bit of cognitive 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.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

Making the Transition to Schooling: Reducing Cultural Dissonance in a Community - Based Literacy Program, LESLLA symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2013.

Being an F1 fan struck me as an exercise in dissonance: a love of racing lost in a cascade of cash that glorified control and made the races themselves, apart from the wonderful noise, exercises in tedium.

And it wasn't because they didn't like it, which made for some serious cognitive dissonance on my part.

And this integrity is what ultimately makes the use of The Beacon truly brilliant: what it does for atmosphere and gameplay are nice, but it is the fact that The Beacon serves so well to create atmosphere, control pacing, create challenge, and connect to the game's themes all in one swoop that provides the formal unity which makes it inspired: there is no dissonance, no multiple game components awkwardly conjoined, nothing that disconnects gameplay from mood or meaning.

was a beautiful harmony of setting, gameplay, and everything that makes video games worth playing; there was not a hint of dissonance to be found.

While the game does aim to be challenging, this dissonance (and the root causes of it, which we'll get into later) stopped the game from being rewarding and instead made it as tedious as swimming in lava.

This kind of dissonance is the engine that drives interesting decision making.

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.

Of this configuration she stated, «My formats are square,» the artist wrote, but the grids are never absolutely square, they are rectangles, a little bit off the square, making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, though I didn't set out to do it that way.

Barrão, the Brazilian artist who has made dissonance a central feature of his explorations of thingness, by Oliver Basciano

These sunlit landscapes, miniaturised and contained within a man - made setting, punctuated the paintings with a point of shimmering dissonance, allowing McIntosh to evoke the Romantic landscape without painting a Romantic landscape.

The dissonance and discord within the artworks reveal the stark change that occurs between childhood and adolescence, and it is this that makes Nevay's paintings so captivating and nightmarish.

This exhibition features a selection of recent bodies of work by Gala Bent, along with a group of new pieces that continue to explore the harmonies and dissonances that make the shape of the world around us.

Martin describes this experience in the following manner: «My formats are square, but the grids never are absolutely square, they are rectangles a little bit off the square, making a sort of contradiction, a dissonance, though I didn't set out to do it that way.

Overall, it's a great show that graphically illustrates the cognitive dissonance that ensues when sensitive artists try to make sense of a world where superficial labels too often trump complex individual realities.

In the end of Lars Nittve's essay for Hanson's exhibition at Rooseum in 1995 (which Nittve curated), he writes:»... To Hanson, though, the main question is likely something different: how to find the precise point of resistance, of friction, of dissonance, that will allow him once again to put the maximum pressure on convention — on painting; that will make you feel that the art's narrow constraints are about to burst wide open; or, to use a well - worn but wonderful cliché, that will make the art sing».

Despite Nye's assertions that skeptics have «cognitive dissonance», many scientists are «underwhelmed» by the evidence for man - made climate change.

John Coleman explores this dissonance in detail (John Coleman, The Man - Made Global Warming Crisis Cancelled, (http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kusi/Comments+on+Global+Warming02.pdf).

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.

Apparently showing you other processes where even smaller traces make a difference is so problematic that you need to employ this strategy to resolve your cognitive dissonance.

A group of Swiss psychologists concluded from a similar focus group study that such arguments were «socio - psychological denial mechanisms» erected to bridge the gap («dissonance») between the understanding that something fundamental had to be changed in their lives — indeed in our entire industrial economy — and the reluctance to make such a big leap.

This means that there is nothing «right» to say, there is nothing you can do to make the person feel better, and in fact when you try to make the person feel better you're creating a dissonance between the two of you that will just make your relationship suffer.