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Belief Perseverance Effects

Effects in which a belief is held or revised too little after new information contradicts it, including belief perseverance, the backfire effect and conservatism bias. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes holding a belief against contrary evidence. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Belief Perseverance Effects rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.

Belief Perseverance Effects
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True-believer syndrome, Wikipedia
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He began using the term to refer to people who continued to believe in a paranormal phenomenon or event, even after it had successfully been debunked or proven to have been staged.
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Wikipedia: Belief Perseverance
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    Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism) is the maintenance of a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it.
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    Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism) is the maintenance of a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it.
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Wikipedia: Conservatism (Belief Revision)
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In cognitive psychology and decision science, conservatism or conservatism bias is a bias which refers to the tendency to revise one's belief insufficiently when presented with new evidence.
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