Cognitive inertia

cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled

Latin term meaning the existing state of affairs

mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time

tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses

statement and provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller

fallacy of incomplete evidence

mistaken belief that more frequent chance events will lead to less frequent chance events, or vice versa, to balance out

type of fallacy, where a proposition is assumed as a premise, which itself needs a proof and directly entails the conclusion

thumb|right|upright=1.35 |Having called conclusions about human-caused climate change "alarmist", contrary to the [[scientific consensus on climate change, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe displayed a snowball—in winter—as evidence the globe was not warming, in a year that was found to be Earth's warmest to date. The director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies distinguished local weather in a single location in a single week from global climate change.]] Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally cultivated ignorance or do

In linguistics and philosophy, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. Examples of presuppositions include: Jane no longer writes fiction. Presupposition: Jane once wrote fiction. Have you stopped eating meat? Presupposition: you had once eaten meat. Have you talked to Hans? Presupposition: Hans exists.

metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually

17th century conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church

theory about discrepancies between opinion polls and election results in the United States

human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continues the behavior instead of altering course

an emotional bias, which is a preference for the current state of affairs as opposed to a change

figure of speech

metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms

logical fallacy

form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to subconsciously influence the participants of an experiment

condition of failing to see something in plain view

maintaining or even strengthening a belief despite new contradictory information

tendency of belief by a person or groups of beliefs once it's formed or form. tendency of following a particular assumption

tendency to favor inaction over action, and to judge harmful action as worse than inaction

phrase originating from goal sports, now describing by metaphor a kind of logical fallacy or debate tactic

continued belief in a debunked theory

principle that scientific change is generational

concept of inertia in social science fields

theory within social psychology that people have several underlying needs that can be satisfied by the defense and justification of the status quo

person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community

logical fallacy

collective forgetting by a group of people

Dysrationalia is defined as the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence. It is a concept in educational psychology and is not a clinical disorder such as a thought disorder. Dysrationalia can be a resource to help explain why smart people fall for Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent encounters.

Poorly informed people who vote in elections