“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Daniel Graham, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, looks at why persons cling to beliefs even when they are demonstrably false. In this disinformation age, it is a valuable read. Here’s a bit:
The investigations that launched this line of inquiry found that people reported a larger crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration than at Obama’s, even when presented with unambiguous photographic evidence to the contrary. Studies of the inauguration photos both immediately after Trump’s inauguration by Schaffner and Luks (2018) and in a recent replication by Ross and Levy (2023) found that upwards of one of every nine “strong” Trump supporters reported a larger crowd size in Trump’s inauguration photo when presented his and Obama’s side by side.
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