A man once asked for some of my chewing gum. When I refused him, he explained that he didn’t want it anyway ... Source: Geralt/Pixabay I’ll be the first to admit that the term ‘cognitive dissonance’ ...

In the heyday of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, when asked if his smoking habit was a symbolic manifestation of unconscious sexual desires, he allegedly replied that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ...

A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. Anyone who interacts with an AI chatbot for the first time is struck by how human ...

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