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

Recently another poll revealed America’s most known political fact: Liberals are miserable. The samplings change but the conclusions don’t. Yet as confirmed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

We see flashes of this dissonance—an American dream aborted from the moment of its conception—throughout the film, starting from the opening notes of the first overture. We see dissonance in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...