Cognitive Dissonance Quotes

• Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

  Frantz Fanon

  Faith, Atheist, Strong

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• When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

  Leon Festinger

  Psychology, Trying, Information

  Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• La sabiduría es tolerancia a la disonancia cognitiva.

  Robert Thurman

  Tolerance, Dissonance, Cognitive

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• It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

  Lewis Black

  Running, Car, Shame

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, Moving, America

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

  Moby

  Fall, Looks, World

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• Sospecho que gran parte del estrés que vemos a nuestro alrededor surge de la disonancia cognitiva creada por un lado del cerebro que escucha giros muy plausibles mientras que el otro lado sabe que simplemente no es así.

  David Palmer

  Stress, Brain, Hearing

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• La única postura que no me deja ninguna disonancia cognitiva es el ateísmo. No es un credo. La muerte es segura y sustituye tanto al canto de sirena del Paraíso como al pavor del Infierno. La vida en esta tierra, con todo su misterio y su belleza y su dolor, se vive entonces mucho más intensamente: tropezamos y nos levantamos, estamos tristes, confiados, inseguros, sentimos soledad y alegría y amor. No hay nada más; pero no quiero nada más.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). "The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever", p.480, Da Capo Press.

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• I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, People, Confusion

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• La única postura que no me deja ninguna disonancia cognitiva es el ateísmo.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Siren Song

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). "The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever", p.480, Da Capo Press.

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• La realidad demuestra continuamente a los verdaderos creyentes que su dios no existe, pero han desarrollado amplios mecanismos para hacer frente a esta disonancia cognitiva.

  Mark Thomas

  Reality, Coping Mechanisms, Religion

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• Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Knowing, Tolerance

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• La naturaleza es la clave de nuestra satisfacción estética, intelectual, cognitiva e incluso espiritual.

  E. O. Wilson

  Spiritual, Nature, Keys

  "Crítica de Los orígenes de la creatividad: cíñase a las hormigas, profesor", por Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. 8 de octubre de 2017.

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• What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

  Chris Abani

  Lenses, Want, Reader

  "Entrevista de The Rumpus con Chris Abani". Entrevista con Peter Orner, therumpus.net. 10 de febrero de 2014.

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• Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon, and it causes a lot of cognitive dissonance about who they are - are they an 8-year-old, or are they a miniature fill-in-the-blank-celebrity? Parents have to draw the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Chica, Pensar, Años

  Fuente: www.marieclaire.com

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• The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, People, Leader

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• A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Jumping, Magic

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• Después de un tiempo, si estás comprometido, empiezas a creer en las cosas en las que rezas. Es sólo disonancia cognitiva. No puedes vivir una vida completamente religiosa y no empezar a asimilarlo.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Religious, Believe, Praying

  Entrevista con Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. 9 de noviembre de 2007.

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• You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Atheist, Atheism, Dissonance

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• I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.

  Meghan Daum

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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