He confirmation bias It consists of embracing a belief and seeking only information that supports it, avoiding as much as possible information that calls it into question.
This includes, naturally, people who generate ideas that conflict with our ideological framework. That is the biggest gap of political tribalism (right-left) is not due so much to rational arguments as to this bias.
I don't even listen to you for money
The algorithmic echo chambers of social networks, in fact, are not the cause of the increase in the Us-Them gap, but rather it is the reflection: algorithms adapt like a glove to our confirmation bias. That is to say: They give us what we want, what we need.
And they avoid giving us what we do not want to hear, what we do not want to attend to, what bothers us, what irritates us, what could undermine our beautiful ideological building (tall and unstable like a house of cards, actually).
So much so that we are even willing to lose the opportunity to win a sum of money as long as we are not exposed to Their ideas. Not all, but a significant majority.
Specifically, as revealed This studio, up to two-thirds of people (both liberals and conservatives) gave up the chance to earn extra money so they wouldn't have to listen to the other side. And they didn't do it because they already knew what the others were going to say., but because it bothered them, could create frustration, or would require too much effort.
The dislike was applied to topics such as same-sex marriage, elections, marijuana, climate change, guns and abortion.
In other words, which corollary: Ideologically committed people are equally motivated to avoid cross-cutting information at the ideological level.
We love ideological bubbles., also because our brain is not wired to assimilate large numbers of people (let alone those who are very different from us).
That is why, in the real world, where we are seven billion people, it is so ridiculous to see a person who says things like "the worst always happens to me." But it happens, because, in addition to confirmation bias, we are also crossed by a deep selfish and narcissistic bias, as you can see in the following video:
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People are capable of giving up money in exchange for not listening to people with ideas contrary to theirs.
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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