Netherlands-born Shanna van Loozenoord, better known as mermaidonmars, opens her debut album Spellbook with a volatile song that shifts and welcomes emotional extremes. “Cognitive Dissonance”, the ...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is once again demonstrating that he operates not based on principles but on his loyalty to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, say the hosts of the Today ...

Cognitive dissonance is everywhere — but it’s not well understood. When we’re aware of it, it can be a powerful motivator for behavioral change and enhance insight. When we're not, it can cause us to ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

After Mass on Sunday, our priest took a moment to relay a message from our bishop regarding the upcoming off-year elections here in Virginia. The Church, of course, goes to great lengths to avoid ...

Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we’re twitchy with regret and self-loathing, advertisers blare, “New Year, new you,” urging us to jettison ...

When an eye-catching (not yet peer reviewed) MIT Media Lab paper — Your Brain on ChatGPT — landed this month, the headline sounded almost playful. The data are anything but. Over four months, students ...

There's a scene 15 minutes into the most recent episode of And Just Like That… that finds Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) sitting in her office at Human Rights Watch, where she works as a lawyer. The ...

Summary: A new study reveals that GPT-4o, a leading large language model, displays behavior resembling cognitive dissonance—a core human psychological trait. When asked to write essays either ...

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 ...