Chiropractic And Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. The research article below shows the internal conflict that many chiropractic students experience when reality conflicts with their indoctrination into pseudoscience. Please note that chiropractic for spinal pain is treated in a positive light in the article when such is either a placebo or is effective treatment that can be provided by legitimate medical professionals called physical therapists without the risks inherent with quackery.

Chiropractic student research

Science Trumps Emotion In Solving Problems

"Imagine how different our world would be if reason and truth always won, if we were more like Houdini or Sherlock Holmes than like Arthur Conan Doyle. In reality, however, we are all guilty of 'motivated reasoning' – holding demonstrably false beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Instead of being genuinely open-minded, we search for data to support our beliefs."

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article81647112.html#storylink=cpy

Imagine if we stopped being ruled so much by our emotions when discussing sensitive topics

Why It Is So Difficult To Change Beliefs

The barrier that took me many decades to overcome regarding religion.

This is a good presentation of all cognitive bias (click on the link within for high definition).

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-single-cognitive-bias/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare