The very act of awarding prizes seems to throw Tinseltown into a state of cognitive dissonance.
So we are left with a situation that is known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance, i.e.
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The demonstrators exercise the most disciplined cognitive dissonance when dealing with issues of things Muslim.
About 30 years ago, study abroad programs became an important part of college commitments to cognitive dissonance.
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Faced with this dichotomy, investors who buy both Treasury bonds and gold are not displaying cognitive dissonance.
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Cognitive dissonance is fundamental to learning, and, in every course, students should bump into something unexpected or unsettling.
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With her, the point is plenitude: more boasts, more hooks, more craziness, more shape-shifting, more cognitive dissonance, more pleasure.
Personally, I think a cognitive dissonance continues to burden the new media market.
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By far the strangest cognitive dissonance comes when looking at how disciples of sustainability handle resources in the Federal government.
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It seems that colleges and employers in the Third Circuit are in for more than their share of cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance is the ability of the mind to believe what it wants even in the face of opposing evidence.
In the giving spirit of the season, we may be tempted to soothe our enormous cognitive dissonance through charitable contributions.
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The Islamofascists' success in these areas, however, owes as much to our indifference, political correctness and cognitive dissonance as to their zeal.
Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, suffers from cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance is so common as to not even be noticed.
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Cognitive dissonance has a way of overtaking reality on Wall Street to the extent that some become highly disillusioned by what is in front to them.
So does one of our central arguments that the business models of most colleges and universities are fundamentally broken mean that we are guilty of cognitive dissonance?
The goal is to create sufficient cognitive dissonance to release the suppressed ability to reason, something most people fall back on only as a last resort.
Just consider the prevalence of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias.
Alternatively, it may be part of cognitive dissonance, which happens when a person's beliefs are not in line with their behaviors -- for instance, a smoker who berates other smokers.
Perhaps there is some cognitive dissonance going on here though one 59-year-old interviewee in the New York Times article seemed to have figured out the secret to harvesting the bounty of both cities.
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Some quite serious cognitive dissonance going on there.
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If you're in the people-selection business-in, say, a personnel or college admissions department-your job assignment can trigger a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, that being the mental disarray that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory positions.
Tragically, these all too familiar examples of democracies cognitive dissonance and fecklessness in the face of real and growing threats are as in Churchills time being encouraged and exacerbated by a failure of the intelligence community.
In a shocking display of rationalizing cognitive dissonance, some (such as Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel in a Wall Street Journal op-ed) have even suggested that the spike in yields is proof that quantitative easing is working.
So a strange cognitive dissonance sets in.
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Such behavior puts into a harsh light the delusional behavior or cognitive dissonance that generally accompanies application of the Clinton Doctrine -- persistent denials or excuse-mongering by official U.S. spokesmen in the face of evidence that "assurances" given by the other party are being violated.
Even more preposterous than the intelligence community's seeming cognitive dissonance about collaboration between terrorists across ideological and religious lines are claims made by various conspiracy theorists including, notably, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker that Secretary Feith's organization had its own mini-CIA cooking up fraudulent intelligence.
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