Avoiding facts inconvenient to our worldview isn’t just some passive, unconscious habit we engage in. We do it because we find these facts to be genuinely unpleasant.https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/11/16897062/political-psychology-trump-explain-studies-research-science-motivated-reasoning-bias-fake-news …
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A third important point on facts. It's not always the facts themselves that people seek to avoid. It's where they lead. If facts have consequences you despise, you're more likely to reject them. And vice, versa. This is called "solutions aversion."
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Is this a self-reflection?
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Great points. This is a HUGE factor in white blindness toward the rampant racism in our country. It’s not so much actual blindness as not wanting to see the painful truth.
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