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Written by Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-20 at 06:37

I still don't understand why half of the voting Americans chose such a human-shaped emetic to run their country (and by geopolitical means the rest of the world too, blegh) :blobcatnauseated:

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Written by Riley S. Faelan on 2025-01-20 at 08:12

@LunaDragofelis They have a defect in their brains that makes the gilded dictator æsthetics seem attractive. Scientists are still researching the mechanisms of the defect, but an important aspect is, they have trouble learning from their mistakes.

When confronted with information that challenges our beliefs, we must often learn from error in order to successfully navigate the world. Past studies in reinforcement learning and educational psychology have linked prediction error, a measure of surprise, to successful learning from feedback. However, there are substantial individual differences in belief-updating success, and the psychological factors that influence belief updating remain unclear. Here, we identify a novel factor that may predict belief updating: right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), which is characterized by a desire for order, structure, and preservation of social norms. We hypothesized that because people who score high on RWA are motivated to preserve entrenched beliefs, they may often fail to successfully update their beliefs when confronted with new information. Using a novel paradigm, we challenged participants’ false beliefs and misconceptions to elicit prediction error. In two studies, we found consistent evidence that high-RWA individuals were less successful at correcting their false beliefs. Relative to low-RWA individuals, high-RWA individuals were less likely to revise beliefs in response to prediction error. We argue that RWA is associated with a relatively closed-minded cognitive style that negatively influences belief updating.

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Written by Riley S. Faelan on 2025-01-20 at 13:17

@LunaDragofelis Oh, and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6mUkj12gY

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