dissonance

One way to reconcile the cognitive dissonance is to accept that gender roles are a social construct and, actually, it’s okay if women want to be firefighters and men want to be manicurists.

“Diciannove” hums with the dissonance of repression plus expression in Leonardo’s consequential 19th year.

The Esptein conspiracy theory is a coping mechanism for people enduring this cognitive dissonance.

"There's a kind of cognitive dissonance" from fans, he argues.

But that statement alone reveals a fundamental dissonance about Lyonne’s film and her understanding of what’s happening to technical artists in Hollywood.