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Immaculate Cognition -- the state of forming and having an undeniably correct opinion without any input of accurate data or factual information.
Immaculate Cognition, the capricious and spontaneous generation of supposedly irrefutable knowledge without any verifiable outside influences or forces, is in reality rarer than Immaculate Conception.
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Cognitive Dissonance States that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.
You do a boring job, but is paid $30/hour, so you say that is a nice and interesting job....'well, it is not cognitive dissonance, I think is a great new job!!'
You are deciding about two movies, your girlfriend wants to see the most boring one so after the cinema, you think it was a good movie and cool after all.
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Knowing you made the wrong choice but are too stubborn to correct yourself and therefore deny it by saying everyone else made the wrong choice.
PS3 fanboy: PS3 KICKS 360'S ASS ANYDAY.
Xbox fanboy: Uhhh...Okay. Cognitive dissonance. I'll just go back to playing Halo 3.
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The attention is drawn away and the mind loses focus by an external event.
Soldiers experience cognitive blink when they don't execute new orders.
A deer stops and stares because he is evaluating the threat level of another deer during mating season.
A painter goes through his paint buckets in the garage to decide which ones have become useless or dried out, but then stops and searches his surroundings because of suspicious noise that sounded like a rat.
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Reading/listening to classical media (newspapers/radio/tv news channels) vs having your world view determined by reading different bloggers' online garbage.
Caveat emptor!The rapid and uncontrolled mushrooming of social media has created an atmosphere of cognitive dissonance.
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When a conservative objects to blaming George W. Bush for the recession, even though he blames everything that happened during the Bush Administration on Bill Clinton.
Conservative: Yep the old usual left wing play, if all else fails, blame Bush.
Liberal: But you blamed everything that happened during the Bush Administration on Clinton. How is that any different?
Conservative: I guess I'm engaging in some cognitive dissonance.
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the realization that your mother's many years of acquired knowlege may be useful to you, after all.
In a moment of mama-cognition, Mary phoned her mother to ask how much lasagna to make for the dinner party.