14 June 2023 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 has behaved in a certain way. According to the social scientist Leon Festinger, “When a person experiences cognitive dissonance the […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-austin-archer-cognitive-dissonance-and-religious-belief/
