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So conservapedia is wishful thinking and plugging your ears to anything one doesn’t like? Why do people do this to themselves?
by prox 4y ago
So conservapedia is wishful thinking and plugging your ears to anything one doesn’t like?
Why do people do this to themselves?
- airstrike 4y ago> In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things.[1] According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent.[1][2] The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein the individual tries to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.[1][2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
- Loughla 4y agoSelf-soothing. It feels good. The world is confusing and difficult, so holding on to what is familiar, comfortable, and feels good is nice to do for your brain. It's massively common, but I would argue that almost everyone who does it denies that's what they're doing. To them, they're just using the best sources they can find. It's sad, and I'm sure it's a problem.
- prox 4y agoI have always been able to detach emotions from reasoning, but observing I notice not everyone has that skill. And maybe like you said, the ability to see that it is happening.