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The tendency to confirm its point of view, the bias of confirmation - when a person benefits such information that is consistent with its point of view, conviction or hypothesis. Roughly speaking, steps with protective neural tracks. No step to the right. No step to the left.

The simplest example is: "A woman can not be a good driver." Can not and everything here. Moreover, the mass of arguments give. And about blonde driving. And that "in women worse the left hemisphere works worse, so they are not prone to mathematics" (and spit on the study of neurobiologists that bring the opposite).

Or from relevant. Every day I hear the most convincing chains of arguments as "ZAA" vaccination, as well as "against". In the opposite of both cases, it is impossible to convince. I do not try - the bias of confirmation.

Why is this happening? Why does our brain play against us?

In the decision-making process involved one of the oldest sites of the brain - reptil. Her main task is to keep us life. Any new, unfamiliar information it automatically perceives a potential threat and denies.

What are the consequences? Thinking templates to produce certain patterns of behavior, believe stereotypes, to deny the opposite point of view and "not see it", rejecting the uncomfortable arguments from a large variety of list.

Here are some examples of cognitive distortions:

2. Filtration - we concentrate on the negative, simultaneously filtering all the positive aspects of the situation.

3. Excessive generalization - we come to the conclusion, based on a single aspect, "a slice" of the event.

4. There is something, without which no fierce of the network intersection is not, the attribution of statements.

5. Black and white thinking - we see everything or black, or in white, other shades can not be.

6. Hanging shortcuts - we summarize one or two qualities to global judgments, we summarize the extremes.

And so on.

How is it working?

Take my favorite. Social network.

For example, my post on Monica Bellucci and age natural beauty. In it - about the courage and beauty of being yourself, freedom to spoil the thoughts and fictional canons of beauty.

But someone saw only one opinion (which, by the way, was not) - that "the woman does not need to follow." What is this as not ascribing statements?