Posted: Mar 12, 2015 6:17 pm
Teague wrote:BlackBart wrote:Sorry, for those who haven't got time to go through the whole thread, can you give a brief synopsis as to why is it cognitive dissonance at it's best?
Because people are convinced this is a reality even though it's obviously never going to happen so are ignoring information information that conflicts with their existing beliefs?
That's confirmation bias. Cognitive dissonance is confusion caused by having two or more conflicting beliefs.