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===Responses to cognitive dissonance===

===Responses to cognitive dissonance===

People respond to the uncomfortable feelings associated with cognitive dissonance in a number of ways, including:

People respond to the uncomfortable feelings associated with cognitive dissonance in a number of ways, including:

* [[Resolution]]: Identifying the source of the contadiction and adjusting one one or both of the contradicting beliefs to eliminate the contadiction;

* [[Resolution]]: Identifying the source of the contradiction and adjusting one one or both of the contradicting beliefs to eliminate the contradiction;

* [[Rationalization]]: Inventing faulty justifications in an effort to maintain both contradictory ideas as true;

* [[Rationalization]]: Inventing faulty justifications in an effort to maintain both contradictory ideas as true;

* [[Denial]]: Denying the existance of a contradiction where one exists

* [[Denial]]: Denying the existance of a contradiction where one exists

[[George Orwell]] famously discussed cognitive dissonance in his novel [[1984]], using the term [[doublethink]].

[[George Orwell]] famously discussed cognitive dissonance in his novel [[1984]], using the term [[doublethink]].