dissonance

Converse of object

• reduce: In order to reduce that dissonance, rather than renounce their beliefs, they did the exact opposite.
• create: Yet, despite the recent harmony, there is much that could create dissonance.
• experience: If they try to have open minds they experience cognitive dissonance.
• cause: In such a situation there is little dissonance caused by a chaplain traveling from a distant campus.
• use: In this medium he was able to convey great depth of feeling, often using dissonance to great effect.
• avoid: A more practical approach for combining wine with food is to avoid any possible dissonance between them.

Adjective modifier

• cognitive: The theory of cognitive dissonance is supposed to explain why people gamble.
• cultural: In Chapter 5, the discussion and analysis is focused on the concepts of cultural identity and cultural dissonance.
• emotional: Both the film and the objects explore this emotional dissonance.
• more: Through exposure to more cognitive dissonance, the decision was further reinforced.
• extreme: This is brooding music, often slow, taking time to unfold, embracing extreme dissonance as well as tender, diatonic harmonies.
• unexpected: That of course means that there will be an unexpected dissonance within what would have been clearly identifiable scientific, yet artificial parameters.

Modifies a noun

reduction: Notice that Goodin has proposed an alternative account to the cognitive dissonance reduction one.