This book examines the human proclivity to resist changing our beliefs. Drawing on psychological, neurological and philosophical research, and integrating topics as wide ranging as emotion, cognition, social (and physical) context, and learning theory, Lao and Young explore why this resistance to change impedes our learning and progression. They also suggest that failure to adapt our beliefs to available and informed evidence can incur costs that impact personal growth, education, politics, science, law, medicine, and business. Resistance to Belief Change explores the various manifestations of resistance, including overt, discursive, and especially inertial forms of resistance, as well as the factors that impact them. The book also examines how the self-directed learner, as well as teachers, may structure the learning experience to overcome resistance and facilitate progressive and adaptive learning. Lao and Young find that the impediments to learning, and the resulting resistance to change, are far more prevalent and costly than previosuly suggested in research, and so this book will be of interest to a range of people with interests in cognitive, developmental, social, clinical, and educational psychology.
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"Joe Lao draws from a remarkably broad array of sources in psychology and philosophy to carefully address one of the most critical questions of today: How do we know what to believe?" - Deanna Kuhn, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Preface
Chapter 1 - The Nature of Beliefs
Chapter 2 - Introduction to Resistance
Chapter 3 - The Relevance of Resistance to Everyday Life
Chapter 4 - Resistance as Disagreement
Chapter 5 - Affective Resistance
Chapter 6 - Cognitive Anchoring
Chapter 7 - Mechanisms of Cognitive Inertia
Chapter 8 - Social Influences on Resistance
Chapter 9 - Biological Resistance
Chapter 10 - Self-Directed Learning
Chapter 11 - Teaching Against Resistance
Joseph R. Lao earned his Ph.D. in the field of cognitive development from Teachers College, Columbia University. As an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, and a full-time Senior Lecturer at Hunter College, in the City University of New York, and elsewhere, Dr. Lao has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Experimental Psychology, Human Development, Learning, and Cognitive Development for more than 20 years.
Jason Young earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota. As a full-time Associate Professor at Hunter College, in the City University of New York, and elsewhere, Professor Young has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in social psychology over the past 30 years, including Introduction to Social Psychology, Research Methods in Social Psychology, the Psychology of Prediction, and The Psychology of Attitudes and Persuasion.
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