cognitive dissonance

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Coined by American psychologist Leon Festinger. Dissonance was chosen to avoid the logical connotations of inconsistency.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَنَافُر مَعْرِفِيّ (tanāfur maʕrifiyy) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Catalan: dissonància cognitiva — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Chinese Mandarin: 認知失調 /认知失调 (rènzhī shītiáo) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Danish: kognitiv dissonans — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Finnish: kognitiivinen dissonanssi — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• French: dissonance cognitive — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Georgian: კოგნიტური დისონანსი (ḳogniṭuri disonansi) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Georgian: ცნობიერების დისონანსი (cnobierebis disonansi) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• German: kognitive Dissonanz — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Greek: γνωστική παραφωνία (gnostikí parafonía) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Hebrew: דיסוננס קוגניטיבי — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Hebrew: צְרִיר הַכָּרָנִי — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Hungarian: kognitív disszonancia — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Icelandic: hugarmisræmi — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Italian: dissonanza cognitiva — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Japanese: 認知的不協和 (ninchiteki fukyōwa) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Norwegian Bokmål: kognitiv dissonans — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kognitiv dissonans — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Persian: ناهماهنگی شناختی — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Polish: dysonans poznawczy — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Portuguese: dissonância cognitiva — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Russian: когнити́вный диссона́нс (kognitívnyj dissonáns) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Spanish: disonancia cognitiva — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Swedish: kognitiv dissonans — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs
• Ukrainian: когніти́вний дисона́нс (kohnitývnyj dysonáns) — conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs