With the expanding knowledge of neuropsychology, what was previously speculation is now being confirmed through the use of imaging studies such as functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) to track brain ...

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 ...

Recently another poll revealed America’s most known political fact: Liberals are miserable. The samplings change but the conclusions don’t. Yet as confirmed as leftist misery is, its cause is missed: ...

Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already ...

In society, we often try to achieve goals with a means to an end. We aim for a certain grade on a test, a new personal record, a promotion. In the sustainability world, policymakers set goals to be ...

Shany Mor makes many solid points in his op-ed “Why Hamas Atrocities Lead the Left to Hate Israel More” (Oct. 21), but he misses the mark claiming that “cognitive dissonance” explains anti-Israel ...