Sentences with phrase «do cognitive dissonance»

Actually, what seems to be happening is that the space to do cognitive dissonance is widening.

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How does he reconcile this cognitive dissonance.

I did not «cast off» my empirical upbringing when I became a believer; for me (as for so many others, including many scientists), there is no cognitive dissonance between reason and faith, nor any «war» between science and religion.

Any person who does this I can respect whatever conclusion they reach, it's the people who have always been one thing or another and their cognitive dissonance and absolute refusal to accept disbelief in god as an alternative in any capacity that I have beef with.

I can not comprehend the cognitive dissonance required to do this.

That assumes a level of cynicism that may be cultivated by a Mitt Romney, but probably not many rank - and - file conservatives, who either don't know this, or suffer from such extreme cognitive dissonance that it doesn't effect their thinking.

We would not tolerate for one second a human father who behaves in such a sick, sadistic manner, so I don't understand how Pastor and other Christians are able to overcome the cognitive dissonance of excusing this same behavior in their God?

Its development doubtless reflects the cognitive dissonance, as the sociologists would say, of those who long denied that the Cold War had much to do with anything except Harry Truman's crusty temper.

I just got done reading that article, and I have to say that the cognitive dissonance is mind numbing.

Cognitive dissonance — that psychological term that refers to the way our brains respond when our beliefs and actions don't line up — is also a very real thing.

Most atheists do not believe that being religious and being intelligent are mutually exclusive, however the more intelligent a believer is, the greater the cognitive dissonance is.

Or does postliberal theology invite us to lead lives of what, for decades, was called cognitive dissonance?

She has to dissociate or the cognitive dissonance is too high, and she has to do the things that categorize her as a «good mom» within her cultural framework.

Cognitive Dissonance, rationalizing that they did the right thing in the first place in order to satisfy their nerves.

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.

It's the notion of cognitive dissonance, the idea that you don't want to say, «I did something because I'm an idiot.»

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.

There's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance when it comes to the material and the approach that the filmmakers take, and much that doesn't get covered in this short, 80 - minute primer.

I do not know how closely it adheres to the facts of the matter, but I never experienced any cognitive dissonance — as I often did in Belle.

I don't know how the board plans to resolve that cognitive dissonance but I wouldn't call you an apologist if you acknowledged the board's dilemma.

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

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.

If you want to do it seriously, it requires copious amounts of research, fact - checking, persuasion, debate, cognitive dissonance, and contemplation.

As a deeply insecure person, I find being constantly chided for failing even when really doing perfectly fine to be a very distressing form of cognitive dissonance.

The only other parting shot I could get in was that I've found that people with children are less likely to believe in GW, than people without children, because GW is such a horrible problem to contemplate for future generations that there's a huge cognitive dissonance about it (I haven't done a study, it's only my sense of things); the man has three small children.

95 — As a member of the dark side I see many examples of cognitive dissonance, but mostly AGW just doesn't come up.

Alas if you were a sceptic there was almost nothing he could have said to start your cognitive dissonance wobbling — coz you already know don't you?

But you are saying that if one doesn't agree with you, that they have cognitive dissonance problems caused by having a liberal mind.

I know from experience (witnessed) what cognitive dissonance can do to a person's sanity... one has to wonder about folks like this though, how do they sleep?

How do we resolve the cognitive dissonance created by these two reports?

All you have to do is let go of the cognitive dissonance.

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.

There's probably a whole study that could be done on the cognitive dissonance that hobbles our professional mindset around change.

But because we have no conclusive proof that the Minister of Justice does in fact understand reality, we can only say with certainty that this facet of the so - called «tough - on - crime» agenda is based on «cognitive dissonance».

Statistical cognitive dissonance does not seem to afflict faculty councils.

Chippy people who aren't in the magic circle et al. suffer from cognitive dissonance and say «well, at least I earn decent money and don't work 36 hour days like those magic circle lawyers.».

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For example, partners who believe that they did more of the work of relationship initiation may come to feel especially committed to their relationship, as would be predicted by a cognitive dissonance framework on justifying effort (e.g., Aronson & Mills, 1959).

Laziness seems to me to be a precursory personality trait that leads one to experience the stress of cognitive dissonance when one knows what to do, but who then routinely chooses not to do it because of one's core belief that nothing will come of it.