Vorsicht, der Bär
kommt!
Die Änderung
ihrer emotional-ideologischen Überzeugung
empfinden die meisten Menschen wie eine lebensgefährliche,
körperliche Bedrohung und machen dicht! Argumente
prallen ab!
Die Neurowissenschaften untersuchen den instinktiven
Anteil des sozialen, symbolisch gesteuerten TIERS "Mensch".
Sie bestätigen
die "Soziologie des Unbewussten", ihre Konzeption der emotional-ideologischen Komfortzonen und die
Unwahrscheinlichkeit einer rationalen Kommunikation über
die Grenzen dieser Komfortzonen hinweg.
Ein soziales Naturgesetz!
Die Psychologen nennen das "backfire
effect!"
"By placing subjects in an MRI machine and
then asking them to consider counterarguments to their strongly held political
beliefs, Jonas Kaplan’s and Sarah Gimbel’s research, conducted along with neuroscientist Sam Harris,
revealed that when people were presented with evidence that alerted them to the
possibility that their political beliefs might be incorrect, they reacted with
the same brain regions that would come online if they were responding to a
physical threat."
In this episode, two neuroscientists explain why some political beliefs are so connected to people's identities that their brains treat threats to those ideas as if they were threats to their flesh and bone.