I read up on the internet somewhere about inoculation theory, got curious and looked up Wikipedia, which says,
“Inoculation theory is a social psychological/communication theory that explains how an attitude or belief can be protected against persuasion or influence in much the same way a body can be protected against disease–for example, through preexposure to weakened versions of a stronger, future threat.”
I understand the disease analogy, but cannot relate with attitude/belief.
[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory)
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Say you have a child who you want to make believe in a magical wizard who lives in the clouds and has nothing better to do than judge every living person continually.
If you expose this child to strong, logical arguments against this wizard they are more likely to believe the arguments and reject the magical wizard.
However, if you start off by exposing them to people who are just *angry* about the magical wizard and yell at the child for even entertaining the idea of a magical wizard the child will react negatively to all future ideas that are contrary to the wizard because they will be reminded(at least unconsciously) of the negative emotions they got from being yelled at by the angry person. This will make it more difficult for the strong, logical arguments to take hold so the child will continue to believe in the wizard
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