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cognitive dissonance

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cognitive dissonance
n. Psychology
A condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between one's beliefs and one's actions, such as opposing the slaughter of animals and eating meat.
cognitive dissonance
n
(Psychology) Psychol an uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions; usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions


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Cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) is revealed between hot target and neutral picture recognition, recorded and computed with simple statistical comparisons.
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They found that secondary and elementary teachers experienced cognitive dissonance when they collaboratively solved non-routine problems using multiple representations.
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