cognitive dissonance

基本解释

Finally, cognitive dissonance shows up with children.
最后，孩子身上也有认知失调。
The question becomes how well you can manage this cognitive dissonance.
问题是你能把这种认知失调处理得有多好。
Faced with this dichotomy, investors who buy both Treasury bonds and gold are not displaying cognitive dissonance. They are just hedging their bets.
面对此等对立情况，同时购买国债和黄金投资者并不是表现出认知失调，他们只是在对冲自己的赌注罢了。

Now, people have manipulated cognitive dissonance in all sorts of ways and, for instance, hazing. Hazing is cognitive dissonance at work.
人们把认知失调应用到各种各样的情况下,例如欺负新人就是应用认知失调的例子。
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And in fact, hazing through cognitive dissonance draws the inference that this is really, really valuable and this is why it exists.
事实上，根据认识失调来运用欺负新人这个手段得出一个结论,这个理论非常有价值，这就是为什么它会存在。
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The dog--Some dog says, "I use my special--the special process of cognitive dissonance to improve employee morale."
狗就说，“我能用认知失调这个特别方法来“
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The very act of awarding prizes seems to throw Tinseltown into a state of cognitive dissonance.
ECONOMIST: Why the Oscars don't matter

a state in which there is a difference between your experiences or behaviour and your beliefs about what is true

an uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions