Here is a definition from a website:
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them. Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and "reality".
I find I experience cd often as I observe the weird things that seem to happen in our world and the funny things that people do or the odd situations they find themselves in. I hope I can bring lots of cd to this blog!
---Katie
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