Beyond who is telling and how, these things also feel different to me if they're surprises than if they're things I have considered. If it's a surprise, it's usually harder to hear because it jars more with my self-perception, but I feel like I'm more likely to have considered the possibility of bad things being true than of good things being so.
So if you've considered the possibility of something being true, then you're less likely to experience cognitive dissonance about its possibility? It sounds to me like that's what we're talking about here, although maybe I'm projecting. I know I'm thinking about cognitive dissonance when I'm looking at these questions.
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aroraborealis) wrote2010-01-12 12:19 pm
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