I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this post. My newly edited book on dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology, is an update of the book Jud Mills and I ...

"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 ...

New research has deepened our understanding of why pescetarians choose to eat fish but not the meat of land animals. The perceived distance between marine life and participants in the study was a key ...

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All of us fall prey to cognitive dissonance. My cheerful wife occasionally offers me, shall we say, suggestions for improvement. And after 50 years I have learned that she is usually right. How I wish ...

"Cognitive dissonance" is a fascinating term to ponder. My understanding is that it has to do with the distress created when one encounters something that is: 1, undeniable and irrefutably true; 2, ...

Football and I go way back. I played the game for 10 years, up through high school when I started at guard for a district champion. Those years were a major formative influence on my life, building ...