Justifying What You Know Can't Be True

http://miller-mccune.com/culture_society/justifying-what-you-know-cant-be-true-1488
Date Written:  2009-11-03
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11443

Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.

Subject Headings

• Al Qaeda
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Denial
• False Consciousness
• Ideology
• Iraq
• Irrationality
• Psychological Research
• Psychology