Irrelevant insights make worldviews ring true

Abstract Our basic beliefs about reality can be impossible to prove and yet we can feel a strong intuitive conviction about them, as exemplified by insights that imbue an idea with immediate certainty. Here we presented participants with worldview beliefs such as “people’s core qualities are fixed”...

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Main Authors: Ruben E Laukkonen, Benjamin T Kaveladze, John Protzko, Jason M Tangen, William von Hippel, Jonathan W Schooler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05923-3