Cognitive Dissonance: an identity crisis
Cognitive dissonance: having conflicting thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, leading to inconsistent decisions and resistance to change. It’s essentially internal hypocrisy—being insightful when it benefits us, but conveniently ignorant when it doesn’t. This trait is common in neurotic individuals. Neuroticism, a personality trait, reflects how much distress, threat, and insecurity a person perceives in the world. …
