How to Use cognitive dissonance in a Sentence

cognitive dissonance

noun

• Human brains are hard-wired to reduce cognitive dissonance and preserve self-esteem.
  — David M. Edelstein, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2015
• But in my case, the cognitive dissonance is the fault of Google.
  — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2020
• And so, there is some cognitive dissonance that plays with the mind.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2023
• But the eclipse shook me out of this cognitive dissonance.
  — Morgan Godvin, JSTOR Daily, 5 Apr. 2024
• But there was a hint of cognitive dissonance to the complaints.
  — Wired, 9 Dec. 2019
• All Stars LA, there was a bit of a cognitive dissonance.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2021
• In a poignant moment, Ms. Burton asked her to trace the path of that cognitive dissonance.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Like all of us, Pusha is a victim of his own cognitive dissonance.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Democrats say Trump's case requires a cognitive dissonance that is too much to bear.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• My love of football does sort of endure, which is not to say that the cognitive dissonances are not very, very strong and very, very growing.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 10 Sep. 2018
• The cognitive dissonance of the moment—the joy, the fear, the sadness—was beautiful and overwhelming.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• The interview caused a bit of cognitive dissonance in my own mind.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 19 June 2020
• When the all-new 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross showed up in my driveway, there was what shrinks call cognitive dissonance.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• All of which led to weird moments of cognitive dissonance.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The line, uttered by Melanie Griffith’s Tess, sums up the cognitive dissonance women face trying to make it in a man’s world.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2024
• Germany has been well placed to take on more of an active and moral role on the world stage, but the cognitive dissonance of its pro-Israeli rhetoric is profound.
  — Madhvi Ramani, The Week, 2 June 2021
• But there can be a cognitive dissonance to seeing an 80-year old who looks so youthful.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Just how much the role of cultural cognitive dissonance did to define the tenor of that time tends to get forgotten.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• That's the cognitive dissonance part of being a college sports fan.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Yes, their actions speak to a level of cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
  — Salamishah Tillet, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
• All of this leaves Trump’s opponents with a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
  — Michael Ashcroft, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• Being a climate activist and a crypto owner at the same time would seem to cause a kind of cognitive dissonance.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
• But there does seem to be a bit of cognitive dissonance going on, as some tie themselves in knots in an attempt to twist the story to their liking.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• That cognitive dissonance isn’t too far off from what the innies and outies feel once they’re severed.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• The friction isn’t something we are wired for; the cognitive dissonance usually forces us to change or ignore one of those thoughts.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 May 2021
• But the students who had their athletic dreams dashed never got the chance to resolve the cognitive dissonance.
  — Greg Dumas, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• Still, there’s a cognitive dissonance on climate that’s not hard to grasp, and that’s not limited to Disney.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Such statements have fed a sense of cognitive dissonance that pervades many discussions of the Olympics’ fate.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The sheer scale of human suffering around us can seem too enormous to wrap our heads around, let alone chip away at — hence that cognitive dissonance.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• The harmonies only highlight the cognitive dissonance that allows these characters to get out of bed every morning.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024