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Why People Ignore Facts: When it comes to reasoning, identity trumps truth
- dpflan 7y ago> "About two thirds of participants chose to read the opinions they agreed with, giving up the chance to earn more money. And this tendency isn’t something you can simply pin on the other political party—the researchers found that both Democrats and Republicans were equally likely to avoid information they disagree with." That is interesting -- if the participants are willing to forego $X ($Price of disagree - $Price of agree = $X where $Price of disagree > $Price of agree), then does that $X represent the cost of processing disagreeable information, and if that cost were higher ($X increases), would people be more willing to be exposed to disagreeable information? If we remove the direct payment, how does this cost relationship naturally occur -- is time the new variable?