Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Sabbath performs during their Heaven and Hell tour in 1980. The band helped revive the long-feared “Devil’s interval”—a ...

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Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

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The tritone has been blamed for chaos, banned by choirs, and embraced by metalheads. Here’s what the 'devil's interval' really does to your brain. Black Sabbath performs during their Heaven and Hell ...