http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2010/cognitive-dissonance/ Escape - Search - Think Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2010/cognitive-dissonance/#comment-153608 Janie Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:47:55 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1505#comment-153608 Sometimes just knowing something is not enough. You have to put a choice into action to get an outcome. Sometimes just knowing something is not enough. You have to put a choice into action to get an outcome.

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2010/cognitive-dissonance/#comment-109991 julian Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:44:53 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1505#comment-109991 my instict is to read the word, that's easy, much harder tyo read the colour but with practice it becomes a little easier my instict is to read the word, that’s easy, much harder tyo read the colour but with practice it becomes a little easier

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2010/cognitive-dissonance/#comment-82769 dan Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:11:27 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1505#comment-82769 "what one holds to be true vs what one thinks to be true" holding and thinking? what's the difference exactly? “what one holds to be true vs what one thinks to be true”
holding and thinking?
what’s the difference exactly?

]]> http://www.schoolofthinking.org/2010/cognitive-dissonance/#comment-82697 John deChadenedes Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:00:41 +0000 http://www.schoolofthinking.org/?p=1505#comment-82697 Everyone holds beliefs not supported by evidence and its almost certainly true that everyone believes things that are demonstrably false. (See Noam Chomsky's "Necessary Illusions" for an analysis of why this is important in democratic societies.) Because you can logically prove anything from a contradiction (any false statement plus any true statement embody a contradiction), people have no trouble believing that they are highly rational, even when their conclusions are absurd or obviously contrary to observed fact. The mechanism that enables us not to notice this is very, very powerful. Addicts have mastered the art. Anyone in recovery from a serious addiction will be familiar with the sense of cognitive dissonance that goes along with seeing how his or her former life completely violated deeply held values. It's a good idea, when you get that "funny feeling", to stop and ask yourself, "What do I firmly believe, that is actually not true...about the world, about myself, about my culture, about cause and effect, about life." Everyone holds beliefs not supported by evidence and its almost certainly true that everyone believes things that are demonstrably false. (See Noam Chomsky’s “Necessary Illusions” for an analysis of why this is important in democratic societies.) Because you can logically prove anything from a contradiction (any false statement plus any true statement embody a contradiction), people have no trouble believing that they are highly rational, even when their conclusions are absurd or obviously contrary to observed fact. The mechanism that enables us not to notice this is very, very powerful. Addicts have mastered the art. Anyone in recovery from a serious addiction will be familiar with the sense of cognitive dissonance that goes along with seeing how his or her former life completely violated deeply held values. It’s a good idea, when you get that “funny feeling”, to stop and ask yourself, “What do I firmly believe, that is actually not true…about the world, about myself, about my culture, about cause and effect, about life.”

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