This article from Scientific American (The Political Brain) reviews a study confirming that people tend to look for information that support their beliefs and dismiss arguments that contradict them. The amazing thing it found was that we don’t even use the reasoning center of our brains after we make up our minds about a subject. This is one of the explainations of why I’m having so much trouble gettting any traction with The Right to Migrate.
The book Changing Minds by Howard Gardner talks about the the difficulty of changing peoples minds. This new study helps explains why.