can someone explain the psychology behind the reluctantly to admit when you’re wrong?
In: Biology
There’s are some very interesting physiological and psychological studies from the last 10 years that get into a potential chemical element.
But for ELI5: stubborn people feel rewarded for sticking to what they believe more so than they do for learning and adapting to new information.
Some of this relates to the reward of belonging to a group over the desire to objectively evaluate the accuracy (or moral values) of that group.
This is also why such people will self-victimize, a way to validate their group and belonging by preemptively attacking an often imagined foe, which also often has traits the group itself has but is very insecure about.
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