When a party’s leader claims to “back the blue” but pardons or frees those who assaulted police, some party members may feel dissonance. How do they reduce that dissonance?

Many of these represent cognitive biases of some kind ... Devine, “Why Does Social Comparison Reduce Dissonance?” (presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association ...

LONDON — A doctor’s unconscious bias could affect patient care ... with additional affiliation to MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.