• Disk@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      That’s what I thought. Cognitive dissonance is holding conflicting ideas/positions/beliefs. This can be a purely mental, for example someone believing that evolution isn’t real because of their religion while simultaneously knowing that we have a common ancestor with chimps. It can also have a mixture of behaviors, like knowing that smoking is bad but doing it anyway or knowing you need to study/work but procrastinating anyway.

      Where is the conflicting idea here? I think that telsa’s are ugly. Now that could certainly be an emotion-loaded motivational bias which has changed my perception of the cars (motivated thinking). But fuck it, yeah I do motivated thinking just like everyone else. Just because you disagree doesn’t mean that I have cognitive dissonance.

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        1 year ago

        Not quite. Cognitive dissonance is not the act of holding disparate beliefs. It is the mental discomfort that people are SUPPOSED to feel holding two disparate beliefs. Nothing more.

        Cognitive dissonance is the exact thing missing from the kinds of people you describe.

        I don’t care what your opinion of the cars are (their build quality and after market support make them trash regardless), just trying to clear up the actual meaning of “cognitive dissonance”.