What happens to Cults when the world doesn't end?

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The piece explores how people react more strongly to others who hold false beliefs than to those who simply hold different views, shaping emotions and social avoidance. It highlights how certainty about another’s falsehood elevates distress and can influence willingness to engage with or image others as neighbors or colleagues.

This topic is of interest to psychology because it illuminates the emotional mechanisms behind belief-based judgments and social behavior, offering insight into why disagreements can become emotionally charged and how perceived misbelief affects interpersonal dynamics.

Article Title: People are far more disturbed by someone who is “wrong” than someone who is merely “different”

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/people-are-far-more-disturbed-by-someone-who-is-wrong-than-someone-who-is-merely-different/

#beliefs #misbelief #disagreement #emotion #psychology #socialpsychology #interpersonalrelationships #perspective #cognition #bias

Hate Is Taught

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"If we stop idealising the maternal role or trivialising the assaults committed by women, it seems that incestuous mothers who abuse their young children actually represent a significant proportion of incest perpetrators. Monique Tardif and Bernadette Lamoureux mention various considerations that would protect our individual and collective conception of the maternal function. They mention both the resistance to recognising sexual manifestations emanating from women and their aggressive behaviours. Caregiving and nurturing affect the discernment capacity of both victims and their loved ones who face subtle or masked abusive behaviours."

p. 73 of "Le berceau des dominations", par Dorothée Dussy

#parenting #incest #adultDomination #adultism #mothers #mothering #publicHealth #domesticViolence #beliefs #incestCulture

How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.

Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-words-emptying-stages

#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations

Empty Words, Emptying Stages — Lantana

By isolating one writer as a potential risk, the institution produces a broader chilling effect in which participation itself becomes precarious. Public debate shrinks not because anyone is ordered to be silent, but because speech itself has been recoded as the risk.

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Do our beliefs shape our opinions—or do our opinions shape our beliefs? A thought-provoking reflection on the ideas that influence how we see the world.

#Beliefs #PersonalReflection #LifeLessons

Read more: https://www.wyalusing-wes.com/opinions-about-beliefs/

You may know of serotonin's impact on mood - but here's the evidence of how it also makes you cognitively flexible (or not), and makes your beliefs sticky:

"How Serotonin Makes Your Brain Sticky"

https://open.substack.com/pub/leadingbrainsreview/p/how-serotonin-makes-your-brain-sticky?r=59dsl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#brain #neuroscience #beliefs #cognition

How Serotonin Makes Your Brain Sticky

New research shows how serotonin impacts belief stickiness and cognitive flexibility

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“Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the evidence selectively.” — Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories
#GaryTaubes #QOTD #quotation #quote #beliefs #hypothesis #evidence

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/quote-of-the-day-5505/

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“Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the evidence selectively.” — Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories

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A reflection on how beliefs shape worldview, influence judgment, and affect how people interpret truth. It asks readers to consider why they believe what they believe and how those beliefs guide decisions.

#Faith #Beliefs #Philosophy

Read more: https://www.wyalusing-wes.com/opinions-about-beliefs/