Soundwave1976@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat does cognitive dissonance mean?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareWhat does cognitive dissonance mean?Soundwave1976@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoNot just that. Cognitive dissonance is when someone realizes that they hold conflicting beliefs. Most people that hold conflicting beliefs have not yet experienced that dissonance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
minus-squareVaryklinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-22 months agoI don’t think that article is correct. I’ve never understood subsequent realization to be integral to the dissonance itself, which already exists regardless of one’s awareness of it. It’s like insisting that you are not depressed unless you “realize” you’re depressed. unless by “realization” that article simply mean experiencing conflicting emotions, which is the cognitive dissonance itself. requiring “realization” of a feeling as a prerequisite to that feeling existing doesn’t check out.
Not just that. Cognitive dissonance is when someone realizes that they hold conflicting beliefs. Most people that hold conflicting beliefs have not yet experienced that dissonance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
I don’t think that article is correct.
I’ve never understood subsequent realization to be integral to the dissonance itself, which already exists regardless of one’s awareness of it.
It’s like insisting that you are not depressed unless you “realize” you’re depressed.
unless by “realization” that article simply mean experiencing conflicting emotions, which is the cognitive dissonance itself.
requiring “realization” of a feeling as a prerequisite to that feeling existing doesn’t check out.