In other words, Trump’s America adopts, wholesale, Putin’s explanation for his actions, right down to his mocking accusations against the man who, against enormous odds, led his country’s defence.

After the world changing destruction of the Second World War and the array of pulp fiction sci-fi films and magazines that flourished in the 1950s with one paranoid eye on unknown Cold War futures, ...

These were the sort of questions being asked back in the pre internet 1950s by social scientists Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, who infiltrated one such group of believers ...

With the appointment of the new head of state and the Government that followed last year, Sri Lanka has unleashed a new ...

Cognitive dissonance, a term coined by psychologist Leon Festinger, is a state of mental discomfort that arises from holding two conflicting beliefs, values or attitudes. As an investment bias ...

Psychologists like Leon Festinger have studied this phenomenon, concluding that physical and emotional proximity fosters stronger, more resilient relationships. Energy is another significant force ...

The term “cognitive dissonance,” coined by the psychologist Leon Festinger in the nineteen-fifties, described an imbalance between conviction and information. He had been studying a cult led ...

In "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance," Leon Festinger (the psychologist who first described this phenomenon) gives an example of how a person might deal with dissonance related to a health ...