The Cognitive Dissonance Papers

cognitive dissonancenounPsychologythe state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
Cognitive dissonance is our modern, high falutin’ expression for hypocrisy, which was cause for considerably more damnation in the Bible than abortion and gay sex. Cognitive dissonance or hypocrisy in our times as in Biblical times is a scourge, so here’s a series of papers to help recognize and thus avoid it.