Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

Whitechapel's latest album, “Hymns in Dissonance," is definitively deathcore, emerging as their most brutal album in years, ...

There is no chance of the resurrection of communism. However, the democratic socialism that emerged as the repudiation of ...

Charles Cornell took a look at the opening theme for "Severance", noting how dissonance and consonance act like innies and ...

This creates a mental state known as cognitive dissonance, when “an individual’s cognitions — beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors—are at odds” (Egan et al., 2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an ...

In the world of storytelling, whether in film, literature, or any narrative art, cognitive dissonance is a powerful tool.

Howard Goodall:The next stage on music's journey was for a composer who could use dissonance, deliberate clashes of notes and chords, to conjure up subtle emotions. Howard Goodall:What's more ...

Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...