When doctors can’t answer patients' questions, it creates tension. Honesty about medical limitations and systemic barriers ...

Cognitive dissonance is the clash between beliefs and actions, visible in politics, personal choices, and society.

A mismatch between our actual conduct or beliefs and our fictional self-image is so painful that we do whatever it takes to preserve the fiction.

I would like to talk about the concept of cognitive dissonance, the uncomfortable feeling that comes from trying to hold two ...

It is not Israel that is out of step with the rest of the world but, in Israel’s eyes, the rest of the world that is out of ...

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 ...

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

There’s a disconnect in Arizona’s political landscape – one that goes beyond the partisanship and division that dominate ...

In the realm of climate legislation, policymakers often set lofty targets to be achieved by certain year marks. Although ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...