Distance_warrior said:
To all those that don't see the point in the experiment I think the most important part of the result is that when someone presents their opinion in an inflammatory and tactless way all it does is make people hunker down and refuse to see other peoples opinions. This has a large number of practical applications. Now I know that all a strongly worded argument does is reinforce my opponents position. I now know that many opinions I hold are based on an innate defensive tendency that only gets worse the more genuine points are thrown at it.
I also see why the most discussed topics are the most polarising. If everyone just remained calm and collected about ME:3 then the ending wouldn't be seen as anywhere near as bad as it is now. That's probably why none of the reviewers mentioned it because they wouldn't have been exposed to all the strong opinions.
People not knowing this is probably why we don't have gay marriage already. the people trying to allow them were probably so vocal in their support of it that anyone even remotely iffy about the idea instantly went into defensive mode and fortified their belief with whatever justification was at hand and now won't budge a bloody inch.
This is why we always have such polarised major parties in almost every democracy because all the topics matter so much that you can't not advocate them passionately thereby ensuring that everyone who disagrees will never see reason.
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Now I have to rethink absolutely all of my opinions because of ANOTHER subconscious force I did know about. And to think I use to deliberately pick apart the strongest opinions to see if there was any genuine criticism there when all I was doing was making it so my opinion was based more and more on emotion as opposed to logic.
-clap clap clap clap- Someone gets it! Or at least what the study is most likely about.
The stupid thing about posting an article without the source material is we lose -alot- of context. I am on my last semester of my Bachelors degree in Psychology, and seriously, you need the journal article to know the specifics of this.
Most Psychology students go through -multiple- classes on -just- forming research ideas and writing journals. In those journals, there is -alot- of information pertaining to the study, past studies, research ideas, specific statistics, looking forward to future research, and many other things.
Honestly, this study could be the basis of a large idea that the researcher had in mind, this is just the starting point. Journals have to be very speicific in their ideas, so nothing else could be paired in the same journal as this study.
...Orrrrrrr, it could just be a throw away study by a student. That is completly possible. You know the funny thing about that though? Most students get absolutely -no- money to conduct research. Im doing my own study (about 7 months in, with breaks), and there is no profit in them. But thats ok, its research experience that is nearly a -must- for most graduate schools. Even though it may not mean much in the grand scheme of things, this little research could be cited and used to help back up ideas.
Also, people say 'Oh, this is common sense'. Yeah... Psychology does not accept common sense when we are forming ideas and theories. The reason shows in this article, its the -attitude- of the troll that causes people to get defensive, not the words themselves. Tada. That little specific means ALOT, especially when forming a new idea that incorporates that.
So... thats my soapbox. heh. Yeah.