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We Obsess Over People Who Will Never Give Us A Chance, Here’s Why

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Have you ever spent hours trying to decipher the behavior of a love interest, and ended up with an uncomfortable tension in your mind?

While you try to maintain composure, you slowly become increasingly agitated, until finally, you boil over with a dramatic outburst or flurry of messages.In Psychology, this feeling is called Cognitive Dissonance — the psychological discomfort experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values simultaneously (Festinger, 1957).

When present, dissonance makes it extremely difficult to focus on anything but the cause of the tension and a means to reduce it.In the context of relationships, we experience dissonance when we try to reconcile mixed signals — behavior that indicates.

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