By far the strangest cognitive dissonance comes when looking at how disciples of sustainability handle resources in the Federal government.
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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.
Cognitive dissonance is the ability of the mind to believe what it wants even in the face of opposing evidence.
Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, suffers from cognitive dissonance.
Personally, I think a cognitive dissonance continues to burden the new media market.
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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.
It seems that colleges and employers in the Third Circuit are in for more than their share of cognitive dissonance.
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 very act of awarding prizes seems to throw Tinseltown into a state of cognitive dissonance.
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.
With her, the point is plenitude: more boasts, more hooks, more craziness, more shape-shifting, more cognitive dissonance, more pleasure.
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