disconfirming

It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand the kind of disconfirming evidence we have specified.

Blogbot - forsiden 2009

Here is Mr. Shermer's final diagnostic of a wrong conspiracy theory: "The conspiracy theorist defends the conspiracy theory tenaciously to the point of refusing to consider alternative explanations for the events in question, rejecting all disconfirming evidence for his theory and blatantly seeking only confirmatory evidence to support what he has already determined to be the truth."

Maybe We're All Conspiracy Theorists Matt Ridley 2011

You are right that the ideologues probably form a distinct sample from the merely prejudiced precisely because they have already had exposure and have rejected the disconfirming evidence (this might suggest that they became ideologues because their prejudice was threatened and they needed a coherent means to support it, possibly because abandoning it would undermine some other form of benefit, maybe psychological succor or group standing?)

Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity 2010

The other point I guess I wanted to make was that these interactions have to be disconfirming.

Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity 2010

But sometimes the structure of an interaction will not provide disconfirming evidence, or more precisely it will provide evidence that could be interpreted either way.

Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity 2010

"Without independence, it's unlikely you're going to get skepticism or a healthy look for disconfirming evidence."

One Cure for Accounting Shenanigans Jason Zweig 2012

Big ideas create tunnel vision which encourages the believer to ignore disconfirming data.

Margaret Heffernan: The Wilful Blindness of Rupert Murdoch Margaret Heffernan 2011

A third subset of the group supporting withdrawal was asked to write about a time when they had lived up to an ideal, on the theory that we resist "disconfirming" information in the news because it threatens our sense of self—and that a stronger self might be more open-minded.

Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2011

Big ideas create tunnel vision which encourages the believer to ignore disconfirming data.

Margaret Heffernan: The Wilful Blindness of Rupert Murdoch Margaret Heffernan 2011

But here I think the distinction starts to break down: The ideologues might be simply more attentive and conscious of their beliefs, or be embedded within a more structured network of fellow ideologues who can provide them with new ways of accommodating and explaining disconfirming evidence.

Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity 2010