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Cognitive Dissonance

"Cognitive Dissonance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a cognition and behavior; e.g., smoking enjoyment and believing smoking is harmful are dissonant.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cognitive Dissonance" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cognitive Dissonance" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2016 and 2020
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