Study:Strongly held incorrect beliefs often cannot be changed by disputing facts
May 22, 2014 at 4:09 am
Quote:-If information doesn't square with someone’s prior beliefs, he discards the beliefs if they’re weak and discards the information if the beliefs are strong.
-Strongly held beliefs continued to influence judgement, despite correction attempts—even with a supposedly conscious awareness of what was happening.
-When there’s no immediate threat to our understanding of the world, we change our beliefs. It’s when that change contradicts something we’ve long held as important that problems occur.
Final thought: People believe all sorts of illogical stuff,by doing this they have benefits on psychological level,it makes them feel good,find comfort in difficult times,put some meaning in their lives (It never fascinates me enough that meaning is keeping us from all killing ourselves). Fine if your sky daddy is keeping you from killing yourself and giving you comfort well let it be then,but do not impose your emotional states on the rest of us.
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