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Close-minded people who are easily threatened by contradictory information might be the most likely to cling to false beliefs.
In a large global study (N = 49,968, 68 countries) we found that the open-mindedness aspect of intellectual humility was the strongest predictor for rejecting conspiracy beliefs out of 17 potential individual difference measures.
Specifically, people who were not easily threatened (disagreeing with items like "Only wimps admit that they've made mistakes") were the least likely to hold conspiracy beliefs about the pandemic.
The lesson: Keeping an open-mind might be one of the best paths to the truth--especially if you are willing to own up to your errors.
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