disonnance

It induced cognitive disonnance in Rush Limbaugh that was quite funny:

Let's Increase Poverty, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Cognitative disonnance means that we value those things we struggled to understand.

We Have a Winner: Hayek as if Orwell Mattered, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The notion of current 'hipsters' following a musician who had his heyday roughly 30 years ago causes enough cognitive disonnance to tear a hole in the fabric of Tina Weymouth's hair.

Won't Get Byrned Again: The Indignity of Being an Unwitting Participant BikeSnobNYC 2009

Is it possible that someone could like the Beatles and Louis Armstrong and FOTC without all sorts of cognitive disonnance crashing thorugh Crack's mind and shutting down his programming?

"I'll go outside and get some leaves and pretend to be a tree..." Ann Althouse 2009

"Is it possible that someone could like the Beatles and Louis Armstrong and FOTC without all sorts of cognitive disonnance crashing thorugh Crack's mind and shutting down his programming?"

"I'll go outside and get some leaves and pretend to be a tree..." Ann Althouse 2009

But not laughing and gibbering like Daffy Duck under the influence of some Bugs-created cognitive disonnance.

dustbury.com » The thick end of the wedge 2008

What really struck me, though, was the strange disonnance in tone between our politicos and the American setting.

maple grief 2005