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Is it universally true that being shown wrong in an argument leads to resentment, preventing learning? Surely that happens sometimes. But always? It's just met
by mafribe 13y ago
Is it universally true that being shown wrong in an argument leads to resentment, preventing learning? Surely that happens sometimes. But always?
It's just methodologically unconstrained anecdotes, but if I look back at my personal history of changing my mind on things, occasions where I was shown by others to be an idiot, and the associated shame and humiliation, have been powerful forces for me to rethink and improve my position.
Maybe there are different kinds of personality: those who react to a good argument by learning, and those that react by ressentiment and aggression. This has been thematised in social though as the distinction between a normative and a cognitive learning style.