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Yup. I was listening to someone talk about the anti-vaccine movement as coming from a mistrust in big-pharma. They were also talking about how are brain plays
by pfranz 10y ago
Yup. I was listening to someone talk about the anti-vaccine movement as coming from a mistrust in big-pharma. They were also talking about how are brain plays these association games that have bad wiring. They gave the example, "A warehouse burned down that was improperly storing flammable materials." Your brain implies there was a fire started from flammable materials. Even after later facts revealed that there wasn't any flammable material the brain still implies that it was started by flammable materials.
That means you can convince them things they knew were incorrect, but they'll still believe incorrectly about certain aspects. ./flush_cache.sh
- stdbrouw 10y agoIt's known as belief perseverance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance). A well-studied recent example is how people changed their beliefs after it became known that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction as was first suspected: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.586.4414&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.586... (PDF)