If you tell someone that there are billions of stars in the sky, he would believe you, but if you tell him that the wall has wet paint on it, he has to see for himself. Why? What happens psychologicly to make this accure?
2007-12-25 10:09:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
because billions of stars being in the sky is factual, wheres if you say the wall is wet with paint, there going on your word, and why should they 100 percent believe your telling the truth? hence why they find out for themselves.
2007-12-25 10:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course you can't touch and count the stars, but you can touch wet paint. If there was a way to count stars, and do it in an hour, and know you'd get an accurate read, I'd do that, and also touch the wet paint. Putting a sing up that said the paint was wet would dissuade me from touching it... I obey signs, being mentally condition from years of driving.
2007-12-25 18:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by Neomaxizoomedweebie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For one thing, he can personally test to see whether the wall has wet paint. He can't (easily) count a billion stars in the sky.
2007-12-25 18:18:06 · answer #3 · answered by khard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When everything lines up, there are no contradictions to cause disagreement.
When a person receives a communication from you, one of the ways they act to assess whether they can trust you and trust your message is to compare it with other things you have said and done. If all of these agree (that is, they align) then they will be likely to trust you fully. On the other hand, the more you are unaligned, the less they will trust you.
Selective Exposure~
After having made a decision, we will tend to seek to avoid cognitive dissonance. Thus we will avoid things which might indicate that the decision was wrong. The bigger the potential dissonance, the more actively we will avoid.
Even when faced with disconfirming evidence, we will easily fall into denial, pretending that we have not seen this evidence.
2007-12-25 18:27:59 · answer #4 · answered by crystallamp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe because wet paint looks the same as dried paint, and the stars are easy visible in a night sky.
2007-12-25 18:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by Just_Call_Me_Shady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it has a visual component--that if the stars were not so numerous, the person'd have to count them himself. Paint that is close enough even to touch, can look dry--and therefore, urge a person to test it h/himself! After all! I think, it may have dried since that person tried it! Maybe we want to be right, so have to check it ourselves, if it's possible.
2007-12-25 18:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by Martell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋