Why do so many people defend their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence that their thinking and beliefs are completely wrong? An explanation is a common occurrence of cognitive inconsistencies.
Knowledge is only thought and reasoning. It is the spiritual process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, reason, data analysis, and experience.
Isolation is a musical word that means lack of harmony in the night, but it can
also mean tension or conflict due to meaninglessness or inconsistency.
Cognitive differentiation in psychology is the psychological discomfort experienced by an individual who has two or more conflicting views, thoughts, or values at the same time.
Discomfort arises from situations where new evidence contradicts
religious beliefs such as party religion. To reduce emotional discomfort,
individuals need to change their thoughts and behaviors to resolve
contradictions and contradictions, thereby restoring delicate emotional balance
and harmony. It is a cognitive harmony.
As a result,
people constantly reduce intellectual attraction, adapt their faith to their
actions, thereby maintaining psychological coherence and reducing psychological
distress.
This phenomenon, first described by Leon Festinger in 1957, is the reason why so
many people are unwilling to accept their divine faith, even in the face of
compelling evidence that they are wrong. It helps to explain what should be forgiven, and defended against.
There are various ways in which people can relieve mental tension when behavior conflicts with the information available.
In psychology, it is called
"disagreement reduction." Here’s an example of someone trying to lose
weight and eat a healthy diet just by eating a cookie that has learned to be
rich in trans fat and sugar and high in calories. To reduce discrepancies, you
can:
1 = Change
your behavior or beliefs to get new information.
2 =
Justifies your behavior or beliefs by changing the opposite consciousness.
3 = Add a
new report to verify your behavior or beliefs.
4 = Ignore
or reject information that contradicts their current beliefs.
Now, as a relevant example, you would think that incontrovertible evidence has been found that Donald Trump has lied, cheated, stolen, and committed very serious crimes for which the majority of people are threatened with significant imprisonment.
Moreover, he pursued a policy that hurt many to vote for. Many who voted for Trump has strongly defended his election, despite having made plenty of credible judgments and criticisms since November 8, 2016.
Information that
could have been leaked if you knew it beforehand. from a vote like them.
In practice,
how optimists for sound reduce unequal spirits when they have a growing
reality:
1= Change
their attitudes and beliefs by including conflicting information in their
worldview.
2= Indicate
their attitudes or beliefs through familiar exchanges.
3 = Allow
them to behave or believe by adding new ideas.
4 = Ignore
or reject information that is consistent with their current beliefs.
The point
is, when there is a mismatch between us and our behavior, we will change our
thinking to reverse our behavior, we will change our behavior to follow it.
Ideally,
humans would be intelligent beings who retrospectively adjust their beliefs,
attitudes, and behaviors to new relevant information. But this is not the
case. Indeed, many still claim that the country is flat. or only 6,500 years
old; that vaccines pose a health risk. that evolution is fake.
Unfortunately, many people do not want to change their world to find new knowledge, contrary to their true faith. Instead, they reduce conflict by observing behavior by changing their behavior or attitudes.
If science works like most people, we
would still be in a cave and die in our 30s. But health conditions around the
world are improving - even if people can’t.
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