Because of this form of social control, religious adolescents who do engage in sexual activity may experience increased cognitive dissonance and psychological distress.

As a result of her non-survival in mainstream American society, she experienced cognitive dissonance and poverty.

Journalists are then supposed to adopt an uncritical attitude that makes it possible for them to accept corporate values without experiencing cognitive dissonance.

And to move from this still, deliberately small book to the publicity bombast it set off is to experience acute cognitive dissonance.

This is plausible because all humans experience cognitive dissonance.

The BMW case demonstrates that when a car's voice doesn't match its personality, drivers may experience cognitive dissonance, he said.

But occasionally one or another of us is able to offer a practical answer without experiencing too much dissonance between what we say and how we feel about what we're saying.

Another possibility with the climate conference delegates is that they really are experiencing cognitive dissonance.

Researchers have questioned whether subjects are truly experiencing ego depletion, or whether the individuals are merely experiencing cognitive dissonance in the psychological tasks.

A reader who moves from the fiction shelf to the stacks of reportage and commentary may experience cognitive dissonance.