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To: TH who wrote (92788)3/26/2008 7:06:41 PM
From: Metacomet  Respond to of 110194
 
Maybe the conviction of recognizing a false belief is stronger than the conviction of the opposite.

Yup...

Psychologically it is a phenomenon diagnosed as cognitive dissonance.

A currently pandemic form of mental illness wherein the, usually undiagnosed, patient rejects easily observable facts that conflict with prior beliefs.