Definition: Cognitive dissonance

A classic example of cognitive dissonance is smoking If someone smokes and at the same time knows that smoking is harmful to health, cognitive dissonance

Post-decisional dissonance occurs after making a decision that is irrevocable, or that would be very difficult to reverse This type of cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance The central thesis of cognitive dissonance theory is that when two beliefs are inconsistent, individuals experience negatively arousing

cognitive dissonance In the late 1950s, two psychologists, Leon Festinger and James M Carlsmith, did a cognitive dissonance experiment on what they called forced compliance The