In the Aesop’s fable, the fox tries hard to get his hands on a tasty vine of grapes, but fails in all of his attempts to acquire the grapes; at which point the fox convinces himself that he really ...

The Penguine Dictionary of Psychology defines cognitive dissonance (CD) as "an emotional state set up when two simultaneously held attitudes or cognitions are inconsistent or when there is a conflict ...

The student’s last semester grades are in front of us. His mathematics grade is a 2 (a D). “Peter, with your current mathematics grade, unfortunately you wouldn’t be eligible to apply for engineering ...

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

Cognitive dissonance, a term coined by psychologist Leon Festinger, is a state of mental discomfort that arises from holding two conflicting beliefs, values or attitudes. As an investment bias, ...

You can choose a side when there is a conflict between two of your friends, but it becomes next to impossible if you have a conflict between your own different thoughts or belief systems. This is what ...

A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. In a report published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...