Cognitive dissonance

Quality:

Cognitive dissonance - mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. Article “Cognitive dissonance” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5153^rd most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Cognitive dissonance”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2068 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #396 in October 2013
• Global: #4179 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1169 in February 2020
• Global: #2339 in October 2014

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Cognitive dissonance		86.7578
2	Basque (eu) Disonantzia kognitibo		85
3	Hindi (hi) संज्ञानात्मक असंगति		69.0543
4	German (de) Kognitive Dissonanz		62.627
5	Polish (pl) Dysonans poznawczy		62.1406
6	French (fr) Dissonance cognitive		57.2046
7	Arabic (ar) تنافر معرفي		53.7101
8	Korean (ko) 인지부조화		46.031
9	Indonesian (id) Disonansi kognitif		31.6177
10	Spanish (es) Disonancia cognitiva		29.5051

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cognitive dissonance		18 340 033
2	Russian (ru) Когнитивный диссонанс		5 657 092
3	German (de) Kognitive Dissonanz		3 553 354
4	Spanish (es) Disonancia cognitiva		2 470 948
5	Polish (pl) Dysonans poznawczy		2 110 176
6	French (fr) Dissonance cognitive		1 556 289
7	Japanese (ja) 認知的不協和		1 183 837
8	Dutch (nl) Cognitieve dissonantie		1 069 076
9	Portuguese (pt) Dissonância cognitiva		805 971
10	Italian (it) Dissonanza cognitiva		785 260

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cognitive dissonance		19 490
2	German (de) Kognitive Dissonanz		7 432
3	French (fr) Dissonance cognitive		3 718
4	Russian (ru) Когнитивный диссонанс		3 104
5	Hungarian (hu) Kognitív disszonancia		2 610
6	Japanese (ja) 認知的不協和		2 496
7	Spanish (es) Disonancia cognitiva		2 334
8	Chinese (zh) 認知失調		1 707
9	Korean (ko) 인지부조화		1 503
10	Portuguese (pt) Dissonância cognitiva		1 454

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cognitive dissonance		754
2	German (de) Kognitive Dissonanz		227
3	French (fr) Dissonance cognitive		148
4	Dutch (nl) Cognitieve dissonantie		96
5	Russian (ru) Когнитивный диссонанс		80
6	Spanish (es) Disonancia cognitiva		71
7	Polish (pl) Dysonans poznawczy		70
8	Italian (it) Dissonanza cognitiva		55
9	Hebrew (he) דיסוננס קוגניטיבי		52
10	Hungarian (hu) Kognitív disszonancia		44

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cognitive dissonance		4
2	Romanian (ro) Disonanță cognitivă		2
3	Serbian (sr) Когнитивна дисонанца		2
4	Arabic (ar) تنافر معرفي		1
5	Catalan (ca) Dissonància cognitiva		1
6	German (de) Kognitive Dissonanz		1
7	Kazakh (kk) Когнитивтік диссонанс		1
8	Slovak (sk) Kognitívna disonancia		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Koqnitiv dissonans nəzəriyyəsi		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Когнитивен дисонанс		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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