Do you ever feel a nagging sense of discomfort when your actions don't match your beliefs? For example, you might tell a small white lie even though you value honesty. That uneasy feeling is known as ...

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

A man once asked for some of my chewing gum. When I refused him, he explained that he didn’t want it anyway ... Source: Geralt/Pixabay I’ll be the first to admit that the term ‘cognitive dissonance’ ...

Do you ever get that nagging feeling of discomfort when your beliefs and actions don't quite line up? Like when you swear you ...

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Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...