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Why Do People Believe Stupid Stuff, Even When They're Confronted With the Truth?Quicklink Submitted By Meryl Ann Butler No comments
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| The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking. The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger. This "backfire effect" helps explain how strange, ancient and kooky beliefs resist science, reason and reportage. |
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
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