Cognitives explained

Ever heard of cognitive consonance? Getting some cognitive dissonance right now?

Developed by music-loving psychologists, the cognitive dissonance around the lack of cognitive consonance in psychology can be understood thus …

Wiki informs us that “In music, consonance and dissonance form a structural dichotomy in which the terms define each other by mutual exclusion: a consonance is what is not dissonant … consonance and dissonance define a level of sweetness / harshness, pleasantness / unpleasantness, acceptability / unacceptability, of the sounds or intervals under consideration … the two concepts have never been completely explained, and for a thousand years the definitions have varied.”

That is, one person’s cognitive dissonance might just be another’s cognitive consonance.

In any case, the reason you’ve never heard of cognitive consonance is that there’s no money in it.

Having got that off my cognitive chest I can now rest with the cognitive assurance that I have cognitive assonance to match my cognitive insouciance.