Sarah experienced cognitive dissonance as she broke her diet by ordering the double cheeseburger.
cognitive dissonance = the uneasy feeling that arises when someone's beliefs contradict each other or when their actions conflict with their beliefs
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Maya felt the uncomfortable sting of cognitive dissonance when she laughed at the bully's joke.
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These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance—the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.
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J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016
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Their immune systems crash or they suffer from permanent cognitive dissonance.†
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Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea, 2014
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I mean, the greatest thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is that I am in really good shape.†
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Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008
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I told him: "That's the cognitive dissonance.†
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Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008