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# How to pronounce "cognitive dissonance" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/kɒgnɪtɪvɛdɪssɒʊnɪns/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **co·gni·ti·ve·dis·so·nance**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "cognitive dissonance" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And consider the human ability to hold contradictory beliefs simultaneously. Cognitive dissonance is known, but perhaps the function is to allow flexible adaptation, so on and so forth. That really captures the public imagination, that holy shit, this isn't..."
- **Watch at 23:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI&t=1418s)

### Example 2
> "Cognitive dissonance. There's cognitive dissonance, right?"
- **Watch at 15:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDekZGJ5Y-c&t=930s)

### Example 3
> "Cognitive dissonance. There's a whole psychological study about how people will, and you can influence people's beliefs very, very easily by showing them information in one way or the other."
- **Watch at 51:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajSK1jV56A&t=3115s)

### Example 4
> "If you attack somebody pretty aggressively and you don’t treat them with respect the wall goes up. Cognitive dissonance kicks in. “These are my beliefs and you’re telling me I’m wrong?"
- **Watch at 0:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE04fmV1dpg&t=27s)

### Example 5
> "in out in the world, which he was scared of. And it always made me think like the the first step to real change isn't some great leap which is going to cause huge cognitive dissonance and discomfort. It is often so embarrassingly small that we don't think it's consequential. >> Yeah. And I think about that with my life all the time. I'm like actually maybe the first step here is just like buying buying a notepad,"
- **Watch at 55:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vZ4H3uW28&t=3352s)

### Example 6
> "about this guy because he's not pursuing me I'm pursuing him which can reduce cognitive dissonance in the direction of increasing attraction because think about it I don't usually go out of my way for people and yet I'm going out of my way for this man why am I doing that it must be because I really like this guy right sometimes our emotions only arise out of our Behavior people"
- **Watch at 80:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9rgDBX9u0&t=4838s)

### Example 7
> "template and that's that's good for me and have had this deep sense of cognitive dissonance which they've only belatedly realized was needless like it they didn't have to actually put themselves through what they did but they felt what they did you know they they had this process of uh conforming to something that was bad for"
- **Watch at 77:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdCDq_MTj4&t=4667s)

### Example 8
> "remember being at home and and getting the news and laughing and crying kind of real kind of um cognitive dissonance of like feeling really upset. And then they played just all the funniest clips of Sean. Like people just sending me clips, clips, clips. And he was just so funny."
- **Watch at 36:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLAazKUU68&t=2166s)

### Example 9
> "And there are several theories about why the question behavior effect works. But most people believe it's related to something called cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is where your ideal self, the person you want to be, doesn't match up with your real self, which is who you actually are. So although you might want to be a healthy person, your behavior, your actions might not be aligning with that. they might not be aligning with the actions of a fit,"
- **Watch at 50:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VtjcRaRWc&t=3002s)

### Example 10
> "And then, there's cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is interesting. We just recently had Groundhog Day, right?"
- **Watch at 5:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcNvkhS4UYg&t=304s)


## How to Pronounce "cognitive dissonance"

- **Syllables**: co · gni · ti · ve · dis · so · nance
- **IPA**: `/kɒgnɪtɪvɛdɪssɒʊnɪns/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[cognitive](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cognitive), [dissonance](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dissonance)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “cognitive dissonance”?
“cognitive dissonance” is pronounced /kɒgnɪtɪvɛdɪssɒʊnɪns/ (co · gni · ti · ve · dis · so · nance). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “cognitive dissonance”?
“cognitive dissonance” has 7 syllables: co · gni · ti · ve · dis · so · nance.

### How can I hear “cognitive dissonance” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “cognitive dissonance” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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