It's called "cognitive dissonance"

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I do not remember many lectures from my college years because

1) Those years are so far in my rearview I have a hard time remembering what year I graduated and

2) I wasn’t the most dedicated of students. Mostly 2.

But 100 years ago, I was sitting in my Psych 101 class when a phrase popped up that caught in my net: Cognitive dissonance, or

…the state of di…