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Mental phenomenon of holding contradictory beliefs
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly or subconsciously hold fundamentally conflicting
Cognitive_dissonance
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up dissonance or dissonances in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dissonance has several meanings related to conflict or incongruity: Cognitive dissonance
Dissonance
Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance
Consonance_and_dissonance
Phenomenon in games
Ludonarrative dissonance is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the non-interactive elements and the narrative told through the
Ludonarrative_dissonance
2025 studio album by Whitechapel
Hymns in Dissonance is the ninth studio album by American deathcore band Whitechapel. It was released on March 7, 2025, through Metal Blade Records. It
Hymns_in_Dissonance
2002 video game
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is a 2002 action role-playing game developed and published by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. The second installment
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania:_Harmony_of_Dissonance
Negative arousal or discomfort in an individual observing others in their in-group
Vicarious cognitive dissonance (also vicarious dissonance) is the state of negative arousal in an individual from observing a member of their in-group
Vicarious cognitive dissonance
Vicarious_cognitive_dissonance
Sense of regret after having made a purchase
Buyer's remorse is thought to stem from cognitive dissonance, specifically post-decision dissonance, that arises when a person must make a difficult decision
Buyer's_remorse
Musical concept by Arnold Schoenberg
The emancipation of the dissonance was a concept or goal put forth by composer Arnold Schoenberg and others, including his pupil Anton Webern, who styled
Emancipation of the dissonance
Emancipation_of_the_dissonance
Canadian mathcore band
Ion Dissonance is a Canadian mathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. They are known for their technical style, which switched to a more groove based style
Ion_Dissonance
2025 studio album by Coroner
Dissonance Theory is the sixth studio album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on 17 October 2025 through Century Media Records. It is the
Dissonance_Theory_(album)
2009 studio album by Enuff Z'Nuff
Dissonance is the 12th studio album from the band Enuff Z'Nuff. The album reunites singers/songwriters Donnie Vie and Chip Z'Nuff after Vie's hiatus from
Dissonance_(album)
4th episode of the 1st season of Westworld
"Dissonance Theory" is the fourth episode in the first season of the HBO science fiction western thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired
Dissonance_Theory
2011 studio album by Esoteric
Paragon of Dissonance is the sixth studio album by the British doom metal band Esoteric. It is a double album and was released in 2011 through Season of
Paragon_of_Dissonance
Sense of discord caused by a change in a cultural environment
In sociology and cultural studies, cultural dissonance is a sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of
Cultural_dissonance
Recordings Seahaven Seahaven Pure Noise Shane Embury Bridge to Resolution Dissonance Productions Skrillex Soma Owsla Slift Fantasia Sub Pop Thomas Bangalter
List_of_2026_albums
2005 compilation album by Ennio Morricone
Crime and Dissonance is a 2005 compilation album of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's film score work. Intended as a follow-up to two earlier Morricone
Crime_and_Dissonance
Unintended effect of persuasion
dissonance increased more rapidly with increasing discrepancy than did the resistance against change, which verified Festinger's cognitive dissonance
Boomerang_effect_(psychology)
How a person justifies their own beliefs when encountering cognitive dissonance
Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their
Self-justification
2015 German film
Dissonance is a 2015 German short film by German digital and visual artist, graphic designer and filmmaker Till Nowak. It is a hybrid film that combines
Dissonance_(film)
American New Age spiritualist (1900–1992)
Prophecy Fails (1956), which contributed to the development of cognitive dissonance theory. Martin later founded spiritual organizations and produced channeled
Dorothy_Martin_(spiritualist)
Theory within the practice of psychology
unfavorable. The foundation of this theory is rooted in the cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger 1957), which asserts that when individuals are confronted
Selective_exposure_theory
Musical artist
Les Dissonances (The Dissonances) is a European classical music orchestra created in 2004 by the violinist David Grimal. Gathering French and European
Les_Dissonances
Video game series
Mother (known as EarthBound outside Japan) is a video game series that consists of three role-playing video games: Mother (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings
Mother_(video_game_series)
Overvaluing of effortful achievements
social psychology stemming from Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance. Effort justification is a person's tendency to attribute the value of
Effort_justification
2003 video game
development in parallel with its predecessor Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (2002). Michiru Yamane returned to compose the music alongside Takashi
Castlevania:_Aria_of_Sorrow
Work managing feelings and expressions
and supportive. Although deep acting lessens the result of emotional dissonance, it doesn't eradicate it from happening. A study has found that having
Emotional_labor
Commonly used phrase used to quell cognitive dissonance
passing as folk wisdom – intended to end an argument and bypass cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point. Some such clichés are not inherently
Thought-terminating_cliché
2005 studio album by Ion Dissonance
Solace is the second studio album by Canadian band Ion Dissonance. The album was released on September 6, 2005 through Abacus Recordings. The album shows
Solace_(Ion_Dissonance_album)
Polyphonic music with separate melodies
often incorporate non-traditional harmonies and chords, chromaticism and dissonance. The term "counterpoint" has been used to designate a voice or even an
Counterpoint
compliance theory is a paradigm that is closely related to cognitive dissonance theory. It emerged in the field of social psychology. Forced compliance
Forced_compliance_theory
1992 studio album by Tourniquet
Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance is the third studio album by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet. It was originally released on Intense Records in
Pathogenic_Ocular_Dissonance
Musical change from dissonance to consonance
move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one). Dissonance, resolution, and suspense can
Resolution_(music)
Urban legend based on a region in North Atlantic
Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal reinforcement Fallacy Falsifiability Fringe science Groupthink
Bermuda_Triangle
1785 composition by W. A. Mozart, the "Dissonance Quartet"
is a chamber music composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of the unusual counterpoint in its slow introduction. It is
String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._19_(Mozart)
American social psychologist (1919–1989)
an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. The rejection of the previously dominant
Leon_Festinger
American deathcore band
Billboard 200 also to critical acclaim. Their newest album, Hymns in Dissonance, was released on March 7, 2025. Whitechapel was founded in February 2006
Whitechapel_(band)
American actress (1962–2020)
Vicki Greer 2010 The Last Song Kim Miller Casino Jack Pam Abramoff 2014 Dissonance Kim Short film 2018 Gotti Victoria Gotti 2021 Off the Rails Cassie Posthumous
Kelly_Preston
Proposed psychological phenomenon
after doing them a favor. The effect can be explained with cognitive dissonance: individuals rationalize their helpful actions by assuming they must like
Ben_Franklin_effect
Country in Eastern Europe and West Asia
perfect fifths, and a harmonic structure rich in parallel fifths and dissonances.[citation needed] Three types of polyphony have developed in Georgia:
Georgia_(country)
Series of fantasy novels by Alan Dean Foster
books: Spellsinger (1983) The Hour of the Gate (1984) The Day of the Dissonance (1984) The Moment of the Magician (1984) The Paths of the Perambulator
Spellsinger
Account of attitude formation developed by psychologist Daryl Bem
"observer-participant" is given a detailed description of one condition of a cognitive dissonance experiment. Subjects listened to a tape of a man enthusiastically describing
Self-perception_theory
Musical interval
their inverses the sixths, but in medieval times they were considered dissonances unusable in a stable final sonority. In equal temperament, a diminished
Major_third
Painting by Theo van Doesburg
Counter-Composition of Dissonances XVI (in Dutch: Contra-compositie XVI) is a painting by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, from 1925. It hangs in the
Counter-Composition of Dissonances XVI
Counter-Composition_of_Dissonances_XVI
Nigerian politician
January 2019. "AA's One Year in Office: A Moment above Post-election Dissonance – Yahaya Seriki". The Informant247. Kwara, Nigeria. 2020-05-29. Retrieved
Abdulfatai_Yahaya_Seriki
Systematic coercive persuasion
social psychological principles. Conformity, compliance, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, guilt and fear arousal, modeling, and identification are some
Brainwashing
2013 video game
Fault Milestone One is a visual novel video game developed by Alice in Dissonance and published by Sekai Project. It was first released in Japan for Windows
Fault_Milestone_One
1650 work by Athanasius Kircher
Dissoni ("The Universal Musical Art, or the Great Art of Consonance and Dissonance") is a 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was printed
Musurgia_Universalis
Canadian experimental rock duo
became a reflection of the band's sound, characterized by the members as "dissonance-induced cardiac malfunction", and conveying a "sense of urgency" in their
Angine_de_Poitrine
American paranormal investigators and authors
Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal reinforcement Fallacy Falsifiability Fringe science Groupthink
Ed_and_Lorraine_Warren
Australian psychologist
He is recognized for his research on social neuroscience, cognitive dissonance, and the motivating aspects of emotions. Beginning in the late 1990s,
Eddie_Harmon-Jones
Film genre
audience is cognitive dissonance, which is when someone experiences tension in themselves and is urged to relieve that tension. Dissonance is the clashing of
Horror_film
English actor (b. 1967)
series Watson. Coster has played various roles throughout his career. "Dissonance" as Jorgan Stern, "Bodies" as Mark Bruner and "Invaders" as DEA Agent
Ritchie_Coster
Pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic setting of a melody
direction, and where either the note skipped from is distinguished as a dissonance or the note skipped to is distinguished as a non-harmonic or non-chordal
Cambiata
Umbrella term of influence and mode of communication
health suffers from cognitive dissonance.[citation needed] Festinger suggests that we are motivated to reduce this dissonance until our cognition is in harmony
Persuasion
Theory of change of associated beliefs and behaviours
individual's motivation to maintain cognitive consistency when cognitive dissonance occurs—when two attitudes or attitude and behavior conflict. Attitudes
Attitude_change
Aspect of music
balance between consonance and dissonance. This occurs when there is a balance between "tense" and "relaxed" moments. Dissonance is an important part of harmony
Harmony
2016 studio album by Meshuggah
the YouTube channel of the band's record label, Nuclear Blast. "Born in Dissonance", also released as a single, was uploaded on 25 August 2016; a lyric video
The_Violent_Sleep_of_Reason
Video game series
beginning with the Game Boy Advance entries Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria of Sorrow, which were released from 2001 to 2003. Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania
1956 book of social psychology
coping mechanisms after the event did not occur, focusing on the cognitive dissonance between the members' beliefs and actual events, and the psychological
When_Prophecy_Fails
Hypothesis concerning Jesus' appearances after crucifixion
visions of their master or heard his voice. Leman also adheres to cognitive dissonance theory as an alternative explanation for the visions. According to Ehrman
Vision theory of Jesus' appearances
Vision_theory_of_Jesus'_appearances
Musical interval
traditional functional harmony, the tritone is a harmonic and melodic dissonance and tritones in chords push toward resolution. For instance, the tritone(s)
Tritone
Tendency to judge objects that took a longer time to produce to be of higher value
interpreted their result in terms of cognitive dissonance. According to Aronson and Mills, to resolve the dissonance produced by reading the embarrassing passage
Effort_heuristic
Psychological defense mechanism
Rationalization is a defense mechanism (ego defense) in which apparent logical reasons are given to justify behavior that is motivated by unconscious instinctual
Rationalization_(psychology)
English musician (1943–2001)
creating a syncopated flautando effect with the melody resolving its dissonance through tonal displacements. He used the same volume-swell technique on
George_Harrison
2001 film by David Lynch
sound is drowned out by a buzzing roar, noting that the noise "creates a dissonance and suspense that draws in the spectator as detective to place the sound
Mulholland_Drive_(film)
2010 studio album by Ion Dissonance
Cursed is the fourth studio album by the Canadian mathcore band Ion Dissonance, released on August 24, 2010 through Century Media in North America, Doom
Cursed_(Ion_Dissonance_album)
1986 orchestral work by John Adams
shown below, the manifestation of rhythmic dissonance is akin to Adams's method of creating harmonic dissonance as he adds conflicting rhythms to disrupt
Short_Ride_in_a_Fast_Machine
One of Aesop's fables
commentator argues that the story illustrates the state of cognitive dissonance. The fox is taken as attempting to hold incompatible ideas simultaneously
The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
Japanese anime television series
Nobara's fate was echoed by The Television [ja], which highlighted the dissonance created by her continued appearance in the ending sequence alongside the
Jujutsu_Kaisen_(TV_series)
Music unstructured from harmonic patterns
common practice period. It revolves around the idea of 'emancipating dissonance', that is, freeing the structure of music from the familiar harmonic patterns
Post-tonal_music_theory
2007 studio album by Liferuiner
2007. This album was recorded in early 2006 by Antoine Lussier of Ion Dissonance. Liferuiner Jonny O'Callaghan – vocals Daniel Steinbok – guitar/bass Jose
No_Saints
Type of musical note
non-chord tones and unaccented non-chord tones depending on whether the dissonance occurs on an accented or unaccented beat (or part of a beat). Over time
Nonchord_tone
Attempt made by investors to avoid negative financial information
40 years were more likely to avoid learning about the issue. Cognitive dissonance is a state of psychological discomfort that arises when an individual
Ostrich_effect
2023 film by Christopher Nolan
for Nolan releasing the film with Universal. Due to the tonal and genre dissonance between the two films, many social media users created memes about how
Oppenheimer_(film)
Study of social effects on people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
During the 1960s, there was growing interest in topics such as cognitive dissonance, bystander intervention, and aggression. These developments were part
Social_psychology
Mythical creature in Scottish folklore
Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal reinforcement Fallacy Falsifiability Fringe science Groupthink
Loch_Ness_Monster
2003 studio album by Ion Dissonance
Is Irrelevant is the debut studio album by Canadian mathcore band Ion Dissonance, released on September 2, 2003 through Willowtip Records. The title of
Breathing_Is_Irrelevant
Musical chord
and the collective ear of the western world became more accustomed to dissonance, the seventh was allowed to become a part of the chord itself, and in
Seventh_chord
Psychological defense mechanism
duties from one's desires to relax. Its purpose is to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person having conflicting
Compartmentalization (psychology)
Compartmentalization_(psychology)
Common emotional response to opposition
internal source of frustration or annoyance and can create cognitive dissonance. External causes of frustration involve conditions outside an individual's
Frustration
Lack of knowledge and understanding
that describes a person in the state of being unaware, or even cognitive dissonance and other cognitive relation, and can describe individuals who are unaware
Ignorance
Fast-tempo subgenre of hardcore punk
hardcore, adopting a slightly more extreme style by means of its vocals, dissonance, and occasional use of blast beats. Songs are usually very brief, and
Thrashcore
Musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted
previous chord are suspended into the next harmony. The suspension creates a dissonance which must be resolved. A common suspension is a fourth above the root
Suspended_chord
American actor
He also had roles in the short films Tag, Running Up That Hill, and Dissonance. In 2010, he portrayed Seth Hancock, son of Arthur "Bull" Hancock, a thoroughbred
Drew_Roy
Contested psychological condition
theory Brainwashing Chickens for Colonel Sanders Codependency Cognitive dissonance Complex post-traumatic stress disorder Identification with the Aggressor
Stockholm_syndrome
Ritual reflecting change of social status
have shown that severe initiations produce cognitive dissonance. It is theorized that such dissonance heightens group attraction among initiates after the
Rite_of_passage
2006 online video game
DragonFable is a free-to-play, online, browser-based, single-player, fantasy, role-playing game developed by Artix Entertainment and updated on a weekly
DragonFable
Cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism
after the prophecy fails, has been attributed to the coping method of dissonance reduction, a form of rationalization. Members often dedicate themselves
Doomsday_cult
2018 Marvel Studios film
between Africans and African Americans, which he called a "fundamental dissonance". He felt T'Challa and Killmonger represented "dueling responses to five
Black_Panther_(film)
American heavy metal band
of the 1990s" and "Favorite Album of the 1990s" for Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance (1992). They released ten studio albums, two live albums, four compilation
Tourniquet_(band)
Season of television series
Rachel. Title reference: The 1971 film Carnal Knowledge. 36 18 "The Age of Dissonance" Norman Buckley Jessica Queller March 16, 2009 (2009-03-16) 2.33 The seniors
Gossip_Girl_season_2
American psychologist (born 1932)
psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance, and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that
Elliot_Aronson
2001 video game
PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One alongside Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and Castlevania: Dracula X. Similarly to
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Castlevania:_Circle_of_the_Moon
American psychologist (born 1944)
pseudoscience. Her many writings have dealt with critical thinking, cognitive dissonance, anger, gender, and other topics in psychology. Tavris received a B.A
Carol_Tavris
Habitual chain of human activities
Behavioural influences Obedience Compliance Social influence Norm Social perception Stereotype Attribution Cognitive dissonance Self-perception v t e
Compulsion_loop
American jazz singer (born 1994)
2025. Handy, Bruce (October 23, 2023). "America Sounds Like Emotional Dissonance". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 12, 2025 – via www.newyorker.com
Gabrielle_Cavassa
Music scene
wave musicians took rock instrumentation and experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality, as well as non-rock genres like free jazz, funk, and disco
No_wave
1966 studio album by the Beatles
Supporting the lyrics, his stammering guitar riff, combined with the dissonance employed in the song's melody, conveys the difficulties of achieving meaningful
Revolver_(Beatles_album)
Musical interval
consonance. In common practice harmony, however, it is considered a stylistic dissonance in certain contexts, namely in two-voice textures and whenever it occurs
Perfect_fourth
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n.
Discord; dissonance.
n.
A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
n.
Want of agreement; incongruity.