In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even ...

After Mass on Sunday, our priest took a moment to relay a message from our bishop regarding the upcoming off-year elections here in Virginia. The Church, of course, goes to great lengths to avoid ...

Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we’re twitchy with regret and self-loathing, advertisers blare, “New Year, new you,” urging us to jettison ...

Swiss technical thrash outfit Coroner have a new album coming out this October titled Dissonance Theory. It’s their first album since 1993’s Grin, so to say it’s been a minute would be a bit of an ...

The president’s recent executive order and overhaul of science at EPA don’t align with MAHA’s push to clamp down on political interference, some say. The White House’s inaugural “Make America Healthy ...

There's a scene 15 minutes into the most recent episode of And Just Like That… that finds Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) sitting in her office at Human Rights Watch, where she works as a lawyer. The ...

“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.” ― Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive bias is fueling the US political system’s immense dysfunction. It must get better. The ...

Summary: A new study reveals that GPT-4o, a leading large language model, displays behavior resembling cognitive dissonance—a core human psychological trait. When asked to write essays either ...

A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. Anyone who interacts with an AI chatbot for the first time is struck by how human ...