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 ...

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 ...

The Greek concept of hubris—the excessive pride that leads to downfall—perfectly encapsulates the Awami League's attitude.

In the world of storytelling, whether in film, literature, or any narrative art, cognitive dissonance is a powerful tool.

“Ludonarrative dissonance” is a term coined in 2007 by video game designer and director Clint Hocking. The term breaks down like this: ludus, the Latin word for game, the game’s ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...

Now that the whole world knows that the president of the United States is a Russian patsy, I don't have to be gaslit about being a crackpot fake news conspiracy theorist for knowing that fact all ...

Howard Goodall:The next stage on music's journey was for a composer who could use dissonance, deliberate clashes of notes and chords, to conjure up subtle emotions. Howard Goodall:What's more ...

There are only a vanishingly few instances where Big Government advocates are honest about the awful policies upon which they ...

“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930,” the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhilarating immersion in the spark and ensuing conflagration of modern European ...

The Art of Storytelling analyzed the chords of "The Matrix", determining that the same dissonance was reflected in the plot.

Whitechapel is a band that has long shaken the shackles of their deathcore tag. As far back as 2016’s The Mark of The Blade they have been experimenting with and expanding their sound. The inclusion ...