eli5: Cognitive dissonance

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I’ve looked it up, but still feel a little confused

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You hold a certain set of beliefs, in fact you are deeply attached to them. Then you are confronted by facts that directly contradict them.

A common reaction is to refuse to accept these new facts, to denigrate them, to get angry

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