I’ve looked it up, but still feel a little confused
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“Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs.”
It’s that uncomfortable feeling you get when that comedian you hate makes a funny joke. You don’t want to find it funny because you hate them (and they’re just “not funny”), but you still laugh. when experiencing cognitive dissonance, some people have a tendency to try and rationalise the feeling to themself by saying “well, I bet he didn’t write that joke himself”
It’s a feeling you experience – not something you do. For some reason people often confuse it with “being a hypocrite” or a “refusal to accept”. But it’s more around the the “uncomfortable feeling”. Two people could do the exact same thing and one may experience cognitive dissonance and another may not.
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