In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein they try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.
oh well. the rest of us (or at least some of us on here) will be living our lives. i'm not particularly interested in what they think or how they feel about any of this.
not really healthy to have your entire sense of wellbeing and mood hanging completely on politics like they (and some here) do...
Cognitive Dissonance -
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein they try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.
They've gone beyond cognitive dissonance and are now firmly in the realm of double-think.
They will be convinced they have had this stolen from them when Trump gets inaugurated, they will riot like hell.
They will probably riot and try and stop the inauguration to be honest.
oh well. the rest of us (or at least some of us on here) will be living our lives. i'm not particularly interested in what they think or how they feel about any of this.
not really healthy to have your entire sense of wellbeing and mood hanging completely on politics like they (and some here) do...