cognitive dissonancein a sentence
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The cognitive dissonance in the man caused him great stress because he knew smoking would kill him, but he continued smoking anyway.cognitive dissonance = psychological discomfort that arises from an individuals awareness of inconsistencies within beliefs or between beliefs and actions
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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.† (source)cognitive dissonance = psychological discomfort that arises from an individual's awareness of inconsistencies within beliefs or between beliefs and actions
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I told him: "That's the cognitive dissonance.† (source)
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Their immune systems crash or they suffer from permanent cognitive dissonance.† (source)
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I mean, the greatest thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is that I am in really good shape.† (source)
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