cognitive consonance meaning in Hindi

Examples

1. Balance theory proposes that people seek cognitive consonance, between their views and the views of other people; thus, a religious person will suffer cognitive dissonance if his or her mate is not religious, thus motivating the religious person to self-handicap him-or herself to justify failure by rationalization; e . g . the university student who drinks the night before an examination, in response to his fear of poor academic performance.