Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress when the behavior conflicts with someone's beliefs. Probably applies to most people, but I don't think it ap[plies to me. I use critical thinking and I'm willing to face viewpoints or beliefs that provoke strong negative emotions rather than avoiding them.
Can you think of something that made you hold your belief even more?
Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress when the behavior conflicts with someone's beliefs. Probably applies to most people, but I don't think it ap[plies to me. I use critical thinking and I'm willing to face viewpoints or beliefs that provoke strong negative emotions rather than avoiding them.
CO(gnitive) implies together; DIS(sonance) implies apart...artificially putting together what nature sets apart establishes stress/stringere - "to draw tight".