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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo: Kristopher McKay, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The ambitious exhibition “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930,” now on view at the Guggenheim in New York ...

Deathcore outfit Whitechapel are going to hit the road hard to kick off 2025 thanks to their newly announced ‘Hymns in ...