I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this post. My newly edited book on dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology, is an update of the book Jud Mills and I ...

Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

All of us fall prey to cognitive dissonance. My cheerful wife occasionally offers me, shall we say, suggestions for improvement. And after 50 years I have learned that she is usually right. How I wish ...

"Cognitive dissonance" is a fascinating term to ponder. My understanding is that it has to do with the distress created when one encounters something that is: 1, undeniable and irrefutably true; 2, ...

Football and I go way back. I played the game for 10 years, up through high school when I started at guard for a district champion. Those years were a major formative influence on my life, building ...