"Situations that trigger attitudes against our oppinions.""

I resonate. Your example with the environmental activist working for an oil company is a good one. This situational dissonance can even arise merely by being around people who who are having an entirely different consciousness configuration without mutual verbal exchange being necessary at all. I guess this is what happens all the time when we talk about introverts and extroverts, as the latter is more forceful in his power exertion, causing the introvert to recourse. I was especially sensitive when I started going through a complete overhaul of my beliefs from the inside out, a process which was telling me to give me some alone time to establish my introspective learnings.