Cognitive dissonance offers an immediately less inert way of understanding the paradoxes, since dissonance is understood as an inherently unstable state. This offers a natural frame for asking the ...

In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

A man once asked for some of my chewing gum. When I refused him, he explained that he didn’t want it anyway ... Source: Geralt/Pixabay I’ll be the first to admit that the term ‘cognitive dissonance’ ...