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Confronting facts that don’t line up with your worldview may trigger a “backfire effect,”<ref>'''Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization'''. Christopher A. Bail Edited by Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University, New York, NY, and approved August 9, 2018. Accessed on 31st August 2022 via <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804840115</nowiki></ref> which can end up strengthening your original position and beliefs, particularly with politically charged issues. Researchers have identified this phenomenon in a number of studies, including ones about opinions toward climate change mitigation policies and attitudes toward childhood vaccinations. | Confronting facts that don’t line up with your worldview may trigger a “backfire effect,”<ref>'''Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization'''. Christopher A. Bail Edited by Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University, New York, NY, and approved August 9, 2018. Accessed on 31st August 2022 via <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804840115</nowiki></ref> which can end up strengthening your original position and beliefs, particularly with politically charged issues. Researchers have identified this phenomenon in a number of studies, including ones about opinions toward climate change mitigation policies and attitudes toward childhood vaccinations. | ||
This gets worse with age as [[neuroplasticity]] diminishes and changing our minds becomes increasingly difficult. Whilst cognitive dissonance in society is fine in regard to innocuous issues such as what is the best football team to support, when it comes to more pertinent issues such as what action to take in regards to the ecological crisis dissonance on these ideas can be deadly. As Max Planck said "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with | This gets worse with age as [[neuroplasticity]] diminishes and changing our minds becomes increasingly difficult. Whilst cognitive dissonance in society is fine in regard to innocuous issues such as what is the best football team to support, when it comes to more pertinent issues such as what action to take in regards to the ecological crisis dissonance on these ideas can be deadly. As Max Planck said "''A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it''” however the question arises given the potential [[Ecological Crisis Timeline|timeline of the ecological crisis]] do we have the time needed to overcome societies dissonance? | ||
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