Sentences with phrase «experiencing cognitive dissonance»

Or you're a True Believer and are experiencing cognitive dissonance.

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

Then, when we actually moved to the South, we experienced the cognitive dissonance of being assumed to be part of the irresistible evangelical mainstream while practicing a form of Baptist life that eventually got our church kicked out of the denomination.

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.

After granting the favor, the critic experienced cognitive dissonance.

Children 7 to 9 years of age have begun to develop the capacity to imagine how their parents view them and to experience the cognitive dissonance of their parents» conflicting views.

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'' 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.»

The result is that people experience «cognitive dissonance,» which can be painfully disorienting.

For most of the memoirists, a period of cognitive dissonance followed the realization that they could not bring together their experience with the religious tenets they had been taught.

«Not surprisingly, these different, even conflicting, roles and their expectations sometimes cause me to experience intense cognitive dissonance.»

A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance.

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.

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.

Cheng likens his simulations to a «neurological gym»: a format for viewers to deliberately exercise feelings of confusion, anxiety and cognitive dissonance that accompany the experience of unrelenting change.

Cheng describes his simulations as akin to a «neurological gym»: a format for viewers to deliberately exercise the feelings of confusion, anxiety and cognitive dissonance that accompany the experience of unrelenting change.

There's also the ongoing pattern in people's individual issues relating to Cognitive Dissonance and Bias, and the Dunning - Kruger Effect (non-experts in fields and those Pseudo-Experts those with no real life experience in real world applications) that are very much at play among a very small but vocal contingent of participants on RC.

Other expressions of scepticism may result from issue fatigue, cynicism about a media who seek to sensationalise or the experience of cognitive dissonance.

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?

To help with the cognitive dissonance business owners experience when reading reviews of their businesses, Tancer recommends an «exercise in desensitization,» outlined below.

According to Amato and Afifi (2006) youth who are involved in their parents» conflict can feel caught between their parents and hence experience stressful loyalty conflicts and cognitive dissonance.

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.

What Cliff is describing as the precursor to experiencing controlled stress (what Cliff is describing) vs. uncontrolled stress (your neighbour has loud parties every night after midnight and you can't get any sleep as the result) is known as «cognitive dissonance».