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What are Sour Grapes?

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Sour grapes is a tendency to assume that something a person can't obtain or achieve must have little value. It is a type of cognitive bias that is often explained by a sense of cognitive dissonance that occurs when a person desires something they can't obtain. By assuming that unobtainable things must have little value, this stress is reduced.
The term sour grapes originates with a fable about a fox who sees grapes he can't reach so he assumes they must be sour.
Overview: Sour Grapes
Type
Cognitive Bias
Definition
Assuming that the unobtainable has little value in order to reduce cognitive dissonance.
Origin
Aesop's fables, 6th century BC
Related Concepts
Cognitive Dissonance
Motivation

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