Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

I refer you to this remarkable chart from a recent poll by the Public ... you faced a particular kind of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, you thought that personal morality matters a lot in ...

This creates a mental state known as cognitive dissonance, when “an individual’s cognitions — beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors—are at odds” (Egan et al., 2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an ...

And what can we as counsellors do about this? We can find a possible answer in psychology. A psychologist called Leon Festinger coined the phrase “cognitive dissonance” in the 1950s after observing an ...