Defeating deeply held beliefs

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Gblock

Jun 5, 2014 12:35 PM
people believe in things many times because thru observation of trials/events their brain made the connection of a certain outcome. they will not change their belief until this outcome is unproven the same or equal amount of times than the previous outcome or result.
Jun 5, 2014 12:35pm
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thavoice

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Jun 5, 2014 12:53 PM
sleeper;1622494 wrote:Do you believe it is possible to remove/change deeply held beliefs from an individual? If so, what strategies do you find effective in doing so? If not, why do you believe so?

Most of you have seen/read my strategy on how to change the beliefs of an individual and I'm not sure my strategy is very effective. I'm looking for new ideas to improve my ability to persuade people into my line of thinking.

Thoughts? : thumbup:
I think, for you especially, that if you just start agreeing with that person then they will inevitably start to second guess their stand and ultimately change their views.
Jun 5, 2014 12:53pm
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Zoltan

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Jun 5, 2014 1:49 PM
Gblock;1622893 wrote:people believe in things many times because thru observation of trials/events their brain made the connection of a certain outcome. they will not change their belief until this outcome is unproven the same or equal amount of times than the previous outcome or result.
This is very true for certain things, especially racism and bias against certain cultures.
Jun 5, 2014 1:49pm
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sleeper

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Jun 6, 2014 2:24 PM
Zoltan;1622916 wrote:This is very true for certain things, especially racism and bias against certain cultures.
I'm actually pretty confident that as long as one white person has more than any black person racism will always exist.
Jun 6, 2014 2:24pm
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rmolin73

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Jun 7, 2014 10:44 AM
sleeper;1623256 wrote:I'm actually pretty confident that as long as one white person has more than any black person racism will always exist.
That's the crux of it. Smdh
Jun 7, 2014 10:44am