Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Dissonance
(Cross posted from Mystical Paths.)
- If someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know — particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge — they are likely to resist the new learning. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation.
- Counter-intuitively, if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".
- President Bush on Thursday did not rule out dealing with Hamas, which won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, but said the militant Islamic group would have to renounce its call for Israel's destruction. “Peace is never dead,” Bush said at a news conference when asked if he ruled out ever dealing with Hamas.
- If Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatens to sever ties with the Palestinians, boycott them, further delay funds owed to them or impose any other punishment, Olmert will find himself facing increasing international pressure to honor the legitimate, democratic election results, and to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority's social and public services.
Posted by AkivaM at January 26, 2006 12:00 PM
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Cognitive Dissonance
(Cross posted from Mystical Paths.)
Posted by AkivaM at January 26, 2006 12:00 PM