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Cognitive dissonance is your brain doing gymnastics to avoid admitting it was wrong.

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Cognitive dissonance, a theory by Leon Festinger in 1957, describes the discomfort when beliefs and actions conflict, which people often resolve by changing attitudes. That is a fairly accurate loose description.

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