What Eliezer calls doublethink most closely fits what is called ‘cognitive dissonance’ in psychology, but the evidence shows that we seek to resolve that dissonance either by ‘compartmentalization’ or by, I assume, reflective equilibrium (is there a word in psychology for this?). I don’t think we deliberately self-deceive (although, perhaps therapies like CBT seek to do this with memory reconsolidation).
What Eliezer calls doublethink most closely fits what is called ‘cognitive dissonance’ in psychology, but the evidence shows that we seek to resolve that dissonance either by ‘compartmentalization’ or by, I assume, reflective equilibrium (is there a word in psychology for this?). I don’t think we deliberately self-deceive (although, perhaps therapies like CBT seek to do this with memory reconsolidation).