In psychology, cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon where people unknowingly or subconsciously hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions (mental processes). Being confronted by situations that create this dissonance or highlight these inconsistencies can cause stress (discomfort) and motivates change in their thoughts or actions to reduce this dissonance. Persons who experience internal inconsistency tend to become psychologically uncomfortable and are motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance in several ways, such as: rationalization (justifying the behavior), using a just-world fallacy, using selective perception (ignoring some info), or avoiding information (resulting in confirmation bias).
Unfortunately not. The description is wrong and missing a sentence or two.
It is not merely holding opposing views in your head at once. It is literally the discomfort itself that is cognitive dissonance, and most people sadly do not feel it. They happily believe utterly incompatible things. If it were akin to music, cognitive dissonance would be that ick feeling when someone hits a sour note, and most of humanity can sadly jam along to the dulcet tones of a car crash…
the people engaged in doublethink, e.g. people calling themselves “pro-life,” while simultaneously supporting and celebrating the rounding up, detainment, starvation, torture, and murder of human beings just because they’re brown
Bingo. Among so many other examples of blatantly false propaganda from people who happily call themselves followers of Jesus.