Sentences with phrase «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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Call it post-modern cynicism, technological dissonance or even hipsterism — what I suspect it really is is a defence mechanism for dealing with the sudden onslaught of technology that we've all had to face over the past decade.
A cognitive dissonance occurs over sampling sizes in quantitative areas such as market research.
It means further that we are allowed to weep, we need not pretend that we can get over everything keeping a stiff upper lip, we may well be completely bewildered, unable to produce a harmony out of all the contradictions and dissonances of our life.
To tell the homosexual individual that everything is ok, is to do him or her a disservice by pushing the issue underground since he or she usually experiences plenty of dissonance and pain over this anyhow.
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.
«The preference for consonance over dissonance varied roughly in line with the degree of exposure to Western music,» says McDermott.
This power of belief over evidence is the result of two factors: cognitive dissonance and the backfire effect.
«The fact that people who can not reduce dissonance usually suffer mightily (whether over a small but dumb decision or because of serious harm inflicted on others) is itself evidence of how important the ability to reduce it is.»
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.
«If we reviewed prison sentences with the same level of care that we devote to death sentences,» says University of Michigan law professor Samuel R. Gross, «there would have been over 28,500 non-death-row exonerations in the past 15 years...» What is the self - justification for reducing this form of dissonance?
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.
But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.
In 1913 — which was the year of philosopher Edmund Husserl's Ideas, physicist Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and in Saint Petersburg the «first futurist opera», Mikhail Matyushin's Victory over the Sun — another Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky, composed The Rite of Spring, a ballet that depicts human sacrifice, and has a musical score full of dissonance and primitive rhythm.
Across over 1500 square meters of exhibition space, this comprehensive retrospective's spatial scenography will echo the conceptual dynamics of the works, lending the exhibition the quality of a Gesamtkunstwerk — harmonious yet full of dissonances.
By placing colorful dots over faces, obscuring portions of scenes, or juxtaposing stock photographs with quixotic phrases, he injects humor and dissonance into vernacular imagery.
The exhibition showcased their intense personal dialogue by examining a group of 2017 paintings that favor order and the formalist principles of wholes and repetition over fragmentation, discontinuity, and dissonance.
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.
During this period, it's highly likely that there were few of those family things, and less and less of any «joint» anything between the parents, one of whom is likely to have been shouldering the bulk of the child caregiving and responsibility, while the other was off feeling alienated, crying over beer to an understanding «friend,» taking on extra business trips, or resolving the dissonance by avoiding it.
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