On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, budge wrote:
> Doesn't too much cognitive dissonance eventually make your
> head explode?
>
I cut my academic teeth in grad school on the cog diss literature. Short answer: no, your head won't explode. You just become very adept at justifying your current beliefs and actions.
Aronson, a cog dissonance theorist, offers this bon mot: Man is not the rational animal; he is the rationalizing animal.
Miles