Cognitive dissonance helps explain why people often turn away from problems they feel powerless to change: denial takes hold.

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

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Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that one ...

In my roles as a CIO, entrepreneur, investor and Professor (I teach a course at Berklee called “The Innovator’s DNA”), I think about innovation constantly. I know from personal experience (”What ...

Cognitive dissonance is more common than you think. In the field of psychology, it occurs when a person’s beliefs or values contradict their behavior or attitude and creates the feeling of mental ...

Do you keep second-guessing your decisions after you’ve made them? Immobilizing yourself? Berating yourself when you finally decide on something? This can be a normal albeit painful way to make ...

During a very enjoyable and highly participative class session on Thursday as part of a marketing management program, I revisited one of the issues that most concerns me regarding the evolution of ...

David Robinson says OpenAI was saying one thing while doing another. Robinson, formerly a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, sat down with Ezra Klein for The New York Times' "The Ezra Klein Show" ...