What's the difference between disagreement and dissonance?

Disagreement


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
  • (n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
  • (n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.
  • (n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
  • (2) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
  • (3) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (4) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
  • (5) We report the use of a technique for developing guidelines which explicitly seeks to identify areas of agreement and disagreement, and focuses on the reasons that particular decisions were made and the causes of disagreement.
  • (6) Rating disagreements were resolved by a skilled dermatologist who acted as adjudicator.
  • (7) Disagreement in differentiation between simple and complex partial seizures (CPS) probably reflects the limitations of the clinical method rather than of the questionnaire itself.
  • (8) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (9) The difference in actual withdrawal scores and amount of shared variance between the observer and self-ratings were used as indices of disagreement for each individual subject.
  • (10) Unexpected reactions in disagreement with H-2 genetics were detected in both tumours but not in fibroblast line.
  • (11) Disagreement between observers concerning 11 (11%) of the patients resulted from differences of opinion about whether minor changes in sellar outline represented an abnormality or merely a normal variation.
  • (12) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (13) Consequently, discussion and disagreement about the disease is common and some of these aspects are outlined here.
  • (14) The use of phenylpropanolamine (PPA) as an anorectic has provoked commentary and disagreement.
  • (15) There were 23 disagreements between paired readers resulting in an overall interobserver reliability of 95.7 per cent.
  • (16) Although much more information is being disclosed to cancer patients than in the past, there is still considerable disagreement about how much information should be conveyed.
  • (17) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
  • (18) Disagreements among staff about the appropriateness of clinical decisions can lower staff morale and negatively affect the work environment.
  • (19) The shutdown of oil production over a disagreement on how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for using Khartoum's pipelines threatens to exacerbate conditions in South Sudan, which has some of the worst development indicators in the world, particularly in health and education.
  • (20) Disagreements that did occur tended to involve organisms that were drug susceptible by the Autobac 1 system but intermediate or resistant by the other two methods.

Dissonance


Definition:

  • (n.) A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
  • (n.) Want of agreement; incongruity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (2) A former ministerial colleague of Iain Duncan Smith once put it to me that he was a striking example of cognitive dissonance: that is, of holding two or more contradictory beliefs in his head at any given moment.
  • (3) The paper proposes that in post-behaviouristic and post-phenomenological times an integration of frames of reference, designs and methodologies ought to be attempted, notwithstanding serious dissonances, disagreements, and professions-bound interests.
  • (4) The effects of exposure to racially dissonant residential environments on depressive psychopathology are explored.
  • (5) So you’re left with a problem that is one of the most widely studied concepts in social psychology - cognitive dissonance .
  • (6) An adequate interpretation of the findings required an integration of Festinger's (1954, 1957) social comparisons and cognitive-dissonance theories, Cooley's (1902) notions of reflected appraisal, and Newman and Newman's (1976) extrapolations from ego-identity theory.
  • (7) This dissonance should be explored, as effect of zero g might be different on blood flow in vivo and in vitro.
  • (8) When an individual acts contrary to personal values, then there is dissonance, with consequences of guilt, anxiety, despair, or alienation.
  • (9) The result is a weird kind of dissonance: blogs and op-ed pieces written in London salivate over "the most important byelection in 30 years" and claim – with some justification – that its outcome will have profound consequences for the two coalition parties, while most locals view it all with a sullen detachment.
  • (10) Dissonant stimuli are detectable at the cortical level in man (Finkenzeller, Keidel).
  • (11) Smokers may experience cognitive dissonance as a result of using tobacco despite its well-publicised ill-effects, and it may be that interventions targeting rationalisations for smoking will be useful in smoking cessation.
  • (12) Study 3 concerned the effects of laterally presented sound on scanning spatially consonant or dissonant vertical bars.
  • (13) I think a lot of people might think his work is stridently dissonant or painful on the ears.
  • (14) Nicholas Brady's text updated the science a bit, and Purcell created some gloriously crunchy dissonances resolving to broad, bright harmony as he praised Cecilia, the embodiment of music, and her role in creating cosmic harmony out of atomic chaos: "Soul of the World!
  • (15) Perhaps Jones indicated an unease with the sometimes abrasively dissonant music of the later Coltrane bands that preceded the Ali signing, because his own subsequent groups - following a brief stint with Duke Ellington for a European tour - leaned much closer toward a relaxed and accessible hard bop.
  • (16) We have a lot of green blind spots – moments where acute cognitive dissonance consolidates rather than changing a rather unsustainable behaviour.
  • (17) The continuing dissonance inside the educational environment and between education and clinical practice are proposed as contributory factors in the processes that can lead to student frustration and disenchantment.
  • (18) It is a tensile, highly dissonant combination of lines, etched in primary colours, with absolutely no harmonic or colouristic padding to ingratiate the listener.
  • (19) It's not like listening to feedback, and it's not dissonant.
  • (20) A prevention technique based on cognitive dissonance theory proposes verbal inoculations to establish or strengthen beliefs and attitudes, helping a young person to resist drinking, which may be in conflict with another, more desirable goal.