Black Magic "? No, mental. this summer on the occasion of another such strikes ¨ ¨ no drivers, I was lying on Barajas for four hours and also not change I was able to talk to a stranger who decided to share with me their angst: his ex-wife (Cuban) had cast a spell on your 2 years and therefore now he wanted to see him. And we know that the fire must be attacked with fire so without thinking twice engaged the services of a Haitian shaman to reverse the effects of evil eye. You can imagine that during the period of the history I had my eyes wide open, how to believe that a European businessman closer to 50 than the 20 you really believe in these boobs? Of course, my attempts to see that maybe the fact that a little boy who lives alone with the family of the mother and who only visit a few times a year is easily influenced are unacceptable and illogical arguments. The reality is that the child is cursed.
Why do people choose to believe in witchcraft, homeopathy or extraterrestrial encounters even when all physical evidence and rational defy those beliefs? The answer lies in a psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance
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The phenomenon was first proposed time by the psychologist Leon Festinger
in 1954, after following the case of a housewife Marion Keech (fictitious name of course, is to protect the identity of lunatics) who started a cult after claiming aliens aliens receiving messages claiming the advent of World's End (does anyone know how many times has happened to the world in the last 20 years?). The spokesman of the planet Clarion, Sananda, Marion informed that the date of the end of the world via Flood was the midnight of December 20, 1954. So interested in what would happen the day when H D when the world did not end and no space ark came to save Festinger chosen this group. At night the most important day in the history of humanity all the faithful gathered in Keech's house to wait for instructions from ET and company. When the clock struck 12.01 The people became restless, five minutes later, some began to mourn, "the aliens had forgotten to pick them up?. But then Keech · I received ¨ a new message explaining that God (now not only is there a God exraterrestes!) Had changed his mind when he saw that ¨ this small group had caused so much light ... Not since the beginning of time There was a force of goodness and light as that filled the room ... ¨
In short, it was his faith that saved them. Even faced with the fact that his prophecy had proved to be false changed their beliefs. Indeed, from that moment even more convinced of the existence of aliens and spread the cult. The reaction to the dissonance of being wrong will be made even more convinced they were right.
why all the evidence I could show that father that his son was just being influenced by their environment against ever convince him that it is not black magic.
may seem an isolated phenomenon is actually quite common. Experiments with Republican and Democratic voters showed that even faced with the same information, assessment of it depended on their prior beliefs and not only that came to change the information to suit their beliefs. For example, if the democratic government is supposed to increase government spending even if the Clinton period statistics showed the opposite of the Republicans who have always wondered responded that spending was exorbitant, and this irrespective of the level of political information the respondent. (More information in the book
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer )
Even in science, how much it costs to banish old dogmas times! (And why in science if something should not exist are dogmas). Hypotheses that go against established theories for decades have it really hard to pass the filter of publication and symposia and scientific presentations, sometimes, it's incredible what it costs them some support information / comments against their hypotheses ... unless they really go for! Blessed cognitive dissonance.
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