What is Cognitive Dissonance

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This is considered to be the state of uncomfortableness associated with cognitive efforts. Specifically a mental style of stressful discomfort as one’s mental models of understanding and knowledge connections, or knowledge framework, are brought under scrutiny when confronted with contradictory or novel information that must be processed. Learn more in: Showcasing Dreams, Desires, Vision, Whimsy, Illusion, and Anxious Uncertainty: Understanding Aspects of Perseverance and Determination Towards Doctoral Capstone Successes

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A psychological phenomenon that when a person holds conflicting cognitions, the person will strive to justify the conflict to reduce mental discomfort. Learn more in: Improving Objectivity in Project Risk Management

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When exposed to an attitude-incongruent piece of information, individuals are likely to experience internal inconsistency and psychologically and are, in turn, motivated to reduce such cognitive dissonance. Learn more in: News Credibility and Media Literacy in the Digital Age

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The mental stress or discomfort about the purchased services or products experienced by consumers in the post-purchase process. Learn more in: E-WOM as a New Paradigm in the Consumer Decision-Making Process

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A state of psychological conflict, which results from incongruous values and attitudes held simultaneously, or discrepancy between an individual’s acts and beliefs. Learn more in: Embedded in a Culture

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Cognitive dissonance represents a motivational and/or arousal response to external stimuli that is perceived as an inner contradiction. Learn more in: Learning and Knowledge Creation under Perpetual Construction: A Complex Responsive Approach to Applied Business Research

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The state of disequilibrium experienced when human beings have two pieces of information that are connected but inconsistent. Learn more in: Beyond Perspective Taking: Fostering Equity Through Critical Empathy and Intercultural Listening

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The study of how we attempt to reconcile conflicting cognitions (for example, a conflict between our attitudes and our behaviour). Learn more in: Developing Reflection on Values as a Foundation for a Business Career

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Psychological distress brought on by acknowledging and having to confront conflicting perspectives. Learn more in: The Challenges and Responsibilities of White Women in Leadership: Strategies for Interrogating Whiteness in Higher Education

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The experience of having inconsistent thoughts and behavior. Learn more in: The Empowerment Dynamic Approach to Transformational Self-Directed Lifelong Learning

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The unpleasant mental discomfort when an individual is faced with one or more contradictory beliefs, values, ideas, or actions. The individual attempts to realign their internal psychological processes to decrease dissonance. This can take the form of resisting actions that are inconsistent with attitudes, or forming attitudes that are consistent with actions. Learn more in: Towards a Learning Organization: Navigating Barriers, Levers, and Employees' Capacity for Change

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The mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas or values. Learn more in: The Psychology of Meat Consumption

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Feelings of discomfort when a person’s beliefs run counter to his/her behaviors and/or new information that is presented to him/her. Learn more in: Enabling Training in Orthodontics Through Mobile Augmented Reality: A Novel Perspective