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I have never understood why people perceive changing your mind as being costly and I almost want to flip it and
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ask people who do think that well why do you think that as a psychologist I feel
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a responsibility to try to answer that from the best evidence we have so far number one people are afraid to admit
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they're wrong because it's a threat to their perceived intelligence they're
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afraid of getting judged as stupid or or in some ways lacking in conviction and then number two there's a risk of being
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seen as a hypocrite how dare you change your mind you didn't you're not who I
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thought you were