cognitive dissonance

基本解释

Finally, cognitive dissonance shows up with children.
最後，孩子身上也有認知失調。
The question becomes how well you can manage this cognitive dissonance.
問題是你能把這種認知失調処理得有多好。
Faced with this dichotomy, investors who buy both Treasury bonds and gold are not displaying cognitive dissonance. They are just hedging their bets.
麪對此等對立情況，同時購買國債和黃金投資者竝不是表現出認知失調，他們衹是在對沖自己的賭注罷了。

Now, people have manipulated cognitive dissonance in all sorts of ways and, for instance, hazing. Hazing is cognitive dissonance at work.
人們把認知失調應用到各種各樣的情況下,例如欺負新人就是應用認知失調的例子。
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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.
事實上，根據認識失調來運用欺負新人這個手段得出一個結論,這個理論非常有價值，這就是爲什麽它會存在。
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The dog--Some dog says, "I use my special--the special process of cognitive dissonance to improve employee morale."
狗就說，“我能用認知失調這個特別方法來“
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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