The Islamofascists' success in these areas, however, owes as much to our indifference, political correctness and cognitive dissonance as to their zeal.

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Just consider the prevalence of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias.

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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.

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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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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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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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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?

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It seems that colleges and employers in the Third Circuit are in for more than their share of cognitive dissonance.

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