COGNITIVE DISSONANCE


Meaning of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE in English

Psychol.

anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits.

[ 1960-65 ]

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