Is it possible to dissuade those who are deluded? Apparently, there is only one effective strategy: to give the correct information, bright and understandable, which will displace entrenched misconceptions.
Is it possible to dissuade those who are deluded? Apparently, there is only one effective strategy: to give the correct information, bright and understandable, which will displace entrenched misconceptions. Psychologist Norbert Schwarz from the University of Michigan (USA) handed out a text with true and false judgments about the dangers of influenza to different people and asked them to guess which of them are true. Many continued to be mistaken, even when they saw the correct answers – the wrong options confused them. Apparently, the repetition of a lie (no matter for what purpose – to inspire it or debunk it) only strengthens it. According to psychologists, only equally persistent dissemination of correct views is effective.