The second psychological concept that could be at play when people reject the scientific consensus on climate change is what's known as «the backfire effect.»
Not exact matches
The reasons are, first, that traditional religious thought has often assumed that sin is about all we need to be delivered from, and
second, modern liberal thought whether religious or
psychological has often made sin too marginal a
concept.
Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the
concept of
psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.
Berne's
second major
concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are
psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»