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The Effects of Political Beliefs on Motivation
When you challenge people's political beliefs, you're getting more amygdala and insular activation. And yeah, that kind of activation was correlated with a resistance to belief change. It starts to feel an existential crisis when introduced to strong evidence against a sacred belief. So for a while in the middle of this ladder, we're conflicted. You know, we are going for the truth and we do care about the scientific method, but we're really rooting for one idea - which is confirmation bias.