http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/market-manipulation-assuaging-cognitive-dissonance/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/market-manipulation-assuaging-cognitive-dissonance/#comment-14327 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:41:16 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=5683#comment-14327 We live in a society where ads distort the truth to assuage the symptoms of cognitive dissonance, which in themselves are protective by drawing attention to something that may be harmful or in contradiction with our values. Promotion of lies is itself in contradiction with many of our stated social values. What cognitive dissonance allows it? The same that created the current economic disaster.

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