Those who had washed their hands, however, appeared to have reduced cognitive dissonance and rated their chosen and rejected CDs about as they had before having to choose between them.

然而，那些洗过手的人认知上的不一致性却减少了，他们对自己选中和淘汰的CD排名与在被要求挑选CD之前的排名差不多。

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Experimenters have also found that people would often change their attitudes towards something to match their behaviours to avoid the discomfort that dissonance causes.

实验者还发现，人们常常会改变自己的态度使之与自己的行为相一致，以此来避免不一致所引起的不愉快。

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I had built up a mental image of myself as someone who had been pushed around and lied to by their company - and cognitive dissonance worked against them.

我已经给自己树立了一个形象—我像很多被他们公司摆布和欺骗的人一样—认知偏差与他们的想法不一致了。

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It seems that colleges and employers in the Third Circuit are in for more than their share of cognitive dissonance.

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When the individuals heard dissonance, areas of their limbic systems known to be responsible for unpleasant emotion lit up and, moreover, the volunteers used negative adjectives to describe their feelings.

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Alternatively, it may be part of cognitive dissonance, which happens when a person's beliefs are not in line with their behaviors -- for instance, a smoker who berates other smokers.

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