MOST OF US have experienced conflicting beliefs at one time or another. For instance, you know that drinking too much alcohol is bad for your health, but you pour yourself a second glass of wine ...

The new year is a chance to forgive ourselves for past mistakes and consider how to replace the discomfort of cognitive ...

Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

We are seeing the latest example of the scary power of the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance to distort our thinking. Though I am outraged at the harm done by misinformation — death threats to ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...

Once upon a time, the words we used had dependable and agreed-upon meanings. Words describing people, events, beliefs, acts, and other experiences were either facts and truths or fictions and ...

You've been presented with two viable options for a new career. The first option is what you've always wanted—the role sounds like a perfect fit. But the second option comes with higher pay and better ...

A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. Anyone who interacts with an AI chatbot for the first time is struck by how human ...

Research Paper UWS 37A - The Biology of Morality Dr. Elissa Jacobs Library Research Excellence Prize, 2023 About this paper | This paper as PDF | APA format “Sometimes I look at my hands and I ...

Imagine a healthcare provider who has been prescribing a treatment for 15 years with good results, and then a new study shows that this treatment might not be as effective as previously thought, or ...