Games That Feature Ludonarrative Dissonance have gameplay elements that conflict with the overarching narrative.

Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

This creates a mental state known as cognitive dissonance, when “an individual’s cognitions — beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors—are at odds” (Egan et al., 2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an ...

A show at the Guggenheim Museum highlights the early abstract movement, prominently featuring work by husband and wife Robert ...

“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930,” the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhilarating immersion in the spark and ensuing conflagration of modern European ...

It happens to the best of us, but there's actually a name for that discomfort you're experiencing: cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that results from holding two ...

But what happens when you bring an antidote to the U.S., a land where the poison comes not from an external threat but instead festers from within? We see flashes of this dissonance—an American dream ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...

I’m known for one thing. I’ve only done one thing,” explains Sean Ingram, the vocalist behind pioneering mathcore outfit ...

Shu, L. L., F. Gino, and M. H. Bazerman. "Ethical Discrepancy: Changing Our Attitudes to Resolve Moral Dissonance." In Behavioral Business Ethics: Shaping an Emerging ...