Especially at the moment; no point in causing these people any more cognitive dissonance than was necessary.

This is not a president, they said, at risk of being paralyzed by cognitive dissonance.

This could also be seen engaging in as a form of cognitive dissonance.

It is a cognitive dissonance at the heart of our genre.

They stared at each other, waiting for the cognitive dissonance to settle.

I think that the main thing keeping long-term interest rates low right now is cognitive dissonance.

But in both countries, public and politicians suffer from cognitive dissonance.

The program's director suggests that "some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."

However, it is often possible to introduce cognitive dissonance through thought experiments.

It was more subtle than that, just a quick moment of total and complete cognitive dissonance.