Saturday, November 25, 2006

Cognitive Dissonance

"Randy!" she said enthusiastically upon his entering the coffee shop.

5 comments:

Jono and Janice said...

That's not funny.

Randy said...

That's a relief.
It wasn't supposed to be.

Anonymous said...

What does Cognitice Dissonance mean? Why do you have to be so fancy shmancy =\

Randy said...

Cognitive dissonance "is the uncomfortable tension that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts at the same time" according to wikipedia.

I guess in my case, it was an uncomfortable tension when that came from someone else's actions and my perceptions about myself. So it's not quite an appropriate use of the term. Close enough though.

Randy said...

That should read "... it was an uncomfortable tension that came...."