Sentences with phrase «reducing cognitive dissonance»
Leibowitz, quite clearly, has hit upon a marvelous formula for reducing cognitive dissonance.
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A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance.
When babies die because of the philosophy of normal birth, they have two choices to reduce cognitive dissonance.
When a gun massacre occurs precisely because of lax gun laws they have two choices to reduce cognitive dissonance.
One of the ways they reduce the cognitive dissonance is by ignoring, dismissing, or denying any information that conflicts with their existing beliefs.
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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.