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Epic card · Science
Cognitive dissonance, an Epic card
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly or subconsciously hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 510,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Cognitive dissonance quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cognitive dissonance card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Relevant items of ______ include people's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment.
Answer
cognition. Relevant items of cognition include people's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. From the Cognitive dissonance article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance 90 · Fields Medal 84 · Ibuprofen 80 · Anne Brontë 77 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Being confronted by situations that create this dissonance or highlight these inconsistencies motivates change in their cognitions or actions to reduce this dissonance, maybe by changing a belief, by explaining something away, or by taking actions that reduce perceived inconsistency.
- Relevant items of cognition include people's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment.
- Cognitive dissonance exists without outward sign, but surfaces through psychological stress when psychological discomfort is created due to persons participating in an action that creates conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors, or when new information challenges existing beliefs.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cognitive dissonance article was read about 510,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Cognitive dissonance (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mrmw, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
