The author's favorite celebrities made smoking seem cool. Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons Have you ever wanted to do something that you knew was bad for you? I once wanted to smoke cigarettes. My ...

To manage the cognitive dissonance over supporting one's candidate, the person who previously believed in democracy may come to doubt or reject it. Conversely, someone who wanted a take-charge fighter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The age of biosimilars has come for gastroenterology. This includes interchangeable products, three of which are ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin ...

The holidays can be joyful, but social pressures, clashing cultural and family traditions, overeating and overspending invariably also leave many of us with a “cognitive dissonance hangover” once all ...

Michael Pompian classifies conservatism as a belief perseverance bias – a bias where investors cling to prior views (beliefs) ...

If nations can suffer from cognitive dissonance just as individuals can, it's easy to see why we elected Donald Trump. A good place to start thinking about this is football: As I often do in late ...