Sentence examples for mental dissonance from inspiring English sources
There is a slight tinge or ironic mental dissonance at play in this discussion, living as we do in the era of XKeyscore — how important is it to limit the government from one door, when another stands wide open?
Was there any kind of mental dissonance to contemplating the Krays and Jackie Robinson at the same time?
It compounds the shame, it also exasperates an emotional and mental dissonance because while your sexuality is not changing you believe it is because that's the whole lie of conversion therapy".
The foundations of these faulty conclusions lie in the depths of cognitive dissonance, mental discomfort when the facts of life challenge deeply held beliefs.
If the default-mode network functions as the conductor of the symphony of brain activity, we might expect its temporary disappearance from the stage to lead to an increase in dissonance and mental disorder — as appears to happen during the psychedelic journey.
"The brain craves novelty, so boring work has a double cost: the effort involved, and the mental drain due to dissonance between what you're doing and what you want to be doing".
Cognitive dissonance, the mental conflict leading to unpleasant thoughts and or feelings, may be related to this evidence-based gap found between what pediatric nurses claim about procedural pain management (that it is important) and what they actually do (underutilize pain treatments).
One common cause is cognitive dissonance, "the mental discomfort that occurs when two incompatible attitudes are confronted".
Dissonance produces mental discomfort, ranging from minor pangs to deep anguish; people don't rest easy until they find a way to reduce it.
According to Wikipedia, "in psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas, or values, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values".
