Why some people strongly hold unto false belief’s
Have you ever wondered why people love falsehood..
Or rather
Stick hard to false believes that are just obviously wrong..
They don’t just want to accept that those stories and beliefs have been disproved
Yeah there are people like that!!
Some human beings just choose to think differently from others, not minding the real truth
Some people still stick hard to certain disproved facts like
The earth is flat
Albert Einstein was bad at maths
Slaves built Egyptian pyramids
But why??
Recent research have produced an opinion on why such people stick to such false stories and beliefs
New findings from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest that feedback, rather than hard evidence, boosts people’s sense of certainty when learning new things or trying to tell right from wrong.
“If you think you know a lot about something, even though you don’t, you’re less likely to be curious enough to explore the topic further, and will fail to learn how little you know,”
said study lead author Louis Marti, a Ph.D. student in psychology at UC Berkeley.
“If you use a crazy theory to make a correct prediction a couple of times, you can get stuck in that belief and may not be as interested in gathering more information,”
said study senior author Celeste Kidd, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.
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They were asked to identify which colored shapes qualified as a “Daxxy,” a make-believe object invented by the researchers for the purpose of the experiment.
After each guess, they reported on whether or not they were certain of their answer.
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“What we found interesting is that they could get the first 19 guesses in a row wrong, but if they got the last five right, they felt very confident,”
Marti said.
“It’s not that they weren’t paying attention, they were learning what a Daxxy was, but they weren’t using most of what they learned to inform their certainty.”
he said.
Reference
University of California – Berkeley. Research report original written by Yasmin Anwar.