cognitive dissonance – Pål Jåbekk

Lack of balls or lack of brains?

apr 10, 2011

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paljabekk

in cognitive dissonance, Staffan Lindeberg

In my last post I hinted strongly at the occurrence of cognitive dissonance in a recent editorial. I don’t actually think there is much dissonance out there in the world of science. People aren’t really suffering emotional distress from feelings of holding conflicting ideas. Those who sense something is wrong usually acknowledge it and resolve…
You want cognitive dissonance? I’ll give you cognitive dissonance!

mar 28, 2011

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paljabekk

in cognitive dissonance, energy, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Jean-Pierre Flatt, obesity

The latest issue of Obesity offers both welcome rationality, important discussions and good chances of some decent hair pulling. It features an editorial by Jean-Pierre Flatt from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts. Flatt gives us an insight into some important misconceptions about obesity. He even made us a list of…