History has a way of repeating itself, often with different actors but the same tragic plotlines. The fall of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government has left behind a political landscape harshly ...

Markets display cognitive dissonance as oil prices rise 40% amid the Strait of Hormuz closure, yet equity markets remain near ...

A recent New Yorker article, “Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?”, strongly implies that the answer to that question is “No.” The article arrived at this answer by considering a 1956 ...

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Cognitive dissonance, a term coined by psychologist Leon Festinger, is a state of mental discomfort that arises from holding two conflicting beliefs, values or attitudes. As an investment bias, ...

COGNITIVE dissonance is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when our actions and our beliefs do not align. It is the mental discomfort we experience when we hold two or more conflicting thoughts, ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...