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That would be cognitive dissonance. There is dissonance between your action (buying the laptop) and your thoughts (not liking the laptop). You either change you

by syrrim 10y ago

That would be cognitive dissonance. There is dissonance between your action (buying the laptop) and your thoughts (not liking the laptop). You either change your action (return the laptop) or change your thoughts (actually, I think I do like this laptop).

grzm 10y ago
[Edit to add: Though I read the parent comment a number of times, I missed a key line. Leaving my comment for context.] I've read your parent comment a number of times. Where do they express general dislike for the laptop? They say the keyboard is loud, and that if a non-Touch Bar model were available, they'd buy one, but other than that, I read it as them being happy with it: I actually like my 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.
- chmars 10y ago
  syrrim was answering my PS questions and not qualifying my comment.
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  - grzm 10y ago
    Ah, that's it. Don't know how I missed that as I read yours a number of times to see what I missing, but I very clearly did. Thanks for pointing it out!
chmars 10y ago
You're right but I was looking for a more specific term or word, and I've just found it! :) It's called post purchase rationalization, a special form of choice-supportive bias, a form of cognitive dissonance.
ryao 10y ago
That has been shown to be nonsense: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html Also, I brought a 2016 MBP and contemplated keeping it despite not liking it because I wanted a Mac OS X development environment. I ended up returning it. There are more choices than the two you stated.