The Greek concept of hubris—the excessive pride that leads to downfall—perfectly encapsulates the Awami League's attitude.

How cognitive dissonance affects us: This experiment revealed a crucial point: when our actions contradict our beliefs, we ...

This eventually leads to the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation. As more people try to make the dissonant ...

Leon Festinger’s concept of cognitive dissonance was born in the 1950s out of research into what happens when there’s a doomsday cult and doomsday fails to arrive. A tiny minority of cultists have ...

These were the sort of questions being asked back in the pre internet 1950s by social scientists Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, who infiltrated one such group of believers ...

The theory was developed in 1954 by psychologist Leon Festinger. Later research has shown that people who regularly compare themselves to others may find motivation to improve, but may also ...