Lidt om kognitiv dissonans Perhaps there are some kinds of debates where people don’t want to find the right answer so much as they want to win the argument. Perhaps humans reason for purposes other than finding the truth — purposes like increasing their standing in their community, or ensuring they don’t piss off the leaders of their tribe. If this hypothesis proved true, then a smarter, better-educated citizenry wouldn’t put an end to these disagreements. It would just mean the participants are better equipped to argue for their own side. Individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values. It turned out that people’s actual definition of expert is a credentialed person who agrees with me. Kahan calls this theory Identity-Protective Cognition: As a way of avoiding dissonance and estrangement from valued groups, individuals subconsciously resist factual information that threatens their defining values. Elsewhere, he puts it even more pithily: What we believe about the facts, he writes, tells us who we are. And the most important psychological imperative most of us have in a given day is protecting our idea of who we are, and our relationships with the people we trust and love. vox/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:41:23 +0000
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