Eli5: Why is it easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled?

Question

Eli5: Why is it easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled?

In: 634

Answer 1

1. We are biased towards things we think we SHOULD believe, or things the people we trust believe, or things that support our existing viewpoints – this is called “motivated reasoning”
2. We are biased towards the FIRST thing we hear about a topic, because it takes additional mental effort to disprove the first thing and re-learn the second thing than it does to learn the first thing.

[https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/fake-news](https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/fake-news)

Answer 2

1. We are biased towards things we think we SHOULD believe, or things the people we trust believe, or things that support our existing viewpoints – this is called “motivated reasoning”
2. We are biased towards the FIRST thing we hear about a topic, because it takes additional mental effort to disprove the first thing and re-learn the second thing than it does to learn the first thing.

[https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/fake-news](https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/fake-news)