In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

The El Toque Representative Currency Exchange Rate the Cuban government would like to bury. El Toque has been publishing a Representative Currency Exchange Rate for some time now. It fills a need as ...

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy on Human Rights in Democracy. “Cognitive Dissonance is the psychological discomfort a person feels when holding two or more conflicting ...

Abdulai Mansaray: 10 September 2025: “Cognitive Dissonance is the psychological discomfort a person feels when holding two or more conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or values, or when their beliefs ...

Lehr et al. (1) (LSHVB) claim that ChatGPT-4o exhibits an analog to “humanlike cognitive selfhood” in a classical cognitive dissonance paradigm (p. 1). We argue that the observed effects require ...

We thank Alexander Mainetti for his help with collecting data for Study 1. We thank Julia Rohrer, Ruben Arslan, and Saloni Dattani for providing valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this ...

If nations can suffer from cognitive dissonance just as individuals can, it’s easy to see why we elected Donald Trump. As I often do in late summer, I was considering chronic traumatic encephalopathy ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that OpenAI’s GPT-4o, one of the most advanced large language models, exhibits behavior resembling a core feature ...

When Erin arrived at the courthouse to apply for a protection order, she was riddled with fear and confusion. "He's not like this all the time," she cried. "Maybe it was just a one-time thing. I mean, ...