Why It's So Hard to Admit You're Wrong | Cognitive Dissonance

Sometimes our behavior and our beliefs just… don’t match. And a lot of times this mismatch can lead to stress. What’s happening in our brains when we’re inconsistent? Can we learn anything from this discomfort? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/Cognit... https://books.google.com/books?id=90E... https://www.minnpost.com/second-opini... https://theconversation.com/why-wont-... https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-public... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://archive.org/details/theoryofc... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~abaron/dow... https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ...