Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
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Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
Today on the Cognitive Dissidents Podcast we talk about the backfire effect. The backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people who encounter evidence that challenges their beliefs to reject that evidence, and to strengthen their support of their original stance. Essentially, the backfire effect means that showing people evidence which proves that they… Read More »Cognitive Dissidents: 005: The Backfire Effect
Cognitive Dissidents
Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
