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TIL in psychology "cognitive dissonance" requires distress from the incompatible ideas. The distress, if it results from incompatible ideas, is what's theorized to cause one to resolve the contradiction, if one is not distressed they are unlikely to be motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance

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