When two feelings are in tension with one another, admitting to the uncertainty leads to greater credibility and grounded confidence.
Cognitive Dissonance
- When you hold two cognitions (such as ideas, attitude, beliefs, or opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent with each other (e.g. cult followers when proven wrong or smokers)
- Choose courage and being curious over comfort
- Helps you to rethink and relearn
Amusement
- Pleasurable, relaxed excitation, usually involves humor
Bittersweet
- Tension of happy and sad
- Different than ambivalence, unsure if you are happy or sad
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a yearning for the way things used to be in our often idealized and self-protective version of the past.
- Bittersweet: yearning/loss
- Rumination: negative past
- Reflection: adaptive & psychologically healthy
- Worry: future focused
Paradox
- Appearance of contradiction between two related components
- Paradoxes are hard and good for you
Irony
Are you doing something up in humor that actually requires clarity and honesty?
Sarcasm
- Related to irony, can ridicule, tease, and or criticize