Rethinking Your Answers Improves Your Score

In an experiment hundreds of college students were randomly assigned to learn about the first instinct fallacy. On their next two tests, they still weren't any more likely to revise their answers. Reconsidering something we believe deeply can threaten our identities and make it feel as if we are losing a part of ourselves. We often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones.