Knowing you made the wrong choice but are too stubborn to correct yourself and therefore deny it by saying everyone else made the wrong choice.
PS3 fanboy: PS3 KICKS 360'S ASS ANYDAY.
Xbox fanboy: Uhhh...Okay. Cognitive dissonance. I'll just go back to playing Halo 3.
Xbox fanboy: Uhhh...Okay. Cognitive dissonance. I'll just go back to playing Halo 3.
by hobolikker May 27, 2009
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A deer stops and stares because he is evaluating the threat level of another deer during mating season.
A painter goes through his paint buckets in the garage to decide which ones have become useless or dried out, but then stops and searches his surroundings because of suspicious noise that sounded like a rat.
A deer stops and stares because he is evaluating the threat level of another deer during mating season.
A painter goes through his paint buckets in the garage to decide which ones have become useless or dried out, but then stops and searches his surroundings because of suspicious noise that sounded like a rat.
by Axelsword August 24, 2019
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Caveat emptor!The rapid and uncontrolled mushrooming of social media has created an atmosphere of cognitive dissonance.
by Sexydimma May 1, 2021
Get the Cognitive dissonance mug.When a conservative objects to blaming George W. Bush for the recession, even though he blames everything that happened during the Bush Administration on Bill Clinton.
Conservative: Yep the old usual left wing play, if all else fails, blame Bush.
Liberal: But you blamed everything that happened during the Bush Administration on Clinton. How is that any different?
Conservative: I guess I'm engaging in some cognitive dissonance.
Liberal: But you blamed everything that happened during the Bush Administration on Clinton. How is that any different?
Conservative: I guess I'm engaging in some cognitive dissonance.
by Jer Mack September 27, 2011
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Cognitive - of or relating to acquiring knowledge
Skirmisher - soldiers whose purpose is to harass the enemy
Cognitive - of or relating to acquiring knowledge
Skirmisher - soldiers whose purpose is to harass the enemy
"The dinner party last night was fun except for that Cognitive Skirmisher who bludgeoned my brain whilst he figured out his stance on Scottish secession."
by Terry-Rod September 26, 2014
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2. the state of your current brain power for any particular task or event
2. the state of your current brain power for any particular task or event
I have definitely hit my cognitive load on learning this new spreadsheet process. Time for drunk slushies!
by Golden Rules September 5, 2015
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girl 2: you don't know that! you're jumping to conclusions; and that's a cognitive distortion.
girl 2: you don't know that! you're jumping to conclusions; and that's a cognitive distortion.
by crestfallendays July 31, 2018
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