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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

Via Ariana Amorim, Dean J. Fusto
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How to (Once and For All) Correct Mistaken Beliefs

How to (Once and For All) Correct Mistaken Beliefs | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it

"Often mistaken, never in doubt." That wry phrase describes us all more than we'd like to admit. The psychological study of misconceptions shows that all.

 




The students then were helped ===>  to discard naive beliefs <=== and fully embrace scientific ones.


The key is creating an uncomfortable sense of cognitive dissonance; only then are we willing ===>  to trade our private versions of reality for something that looks more like the real world. <===




Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's curator insight, September 15, 2014 11:13 AM

Often mistaken, never in doubt." That wry phrase describes us all more than we'd like to admit. The psychological study of misconceptions shows that all.


The students then were helped ===>  to discard naive beliefs <=== and fully embrace scientific ones.


The key is creating an uncomfortable sense of cognitive dissonance; only then are we willing ===>  to trade our private versions of reality for something that looks more like the real world. <===