One cause that you didn't directly mention: defiance. Often we are trying to shift the mindsets of people who didn't volunteer to get their minds changed and using pretty basic tools to try to do so. A bratty kid being forcefed rudimentary anger management strategies may be as likely to be pissed off by this than anything. A white male employee doing an HR training may feel more identification with their race and gender after feeling those are under attack from a poorly framed training course.
Conversely, entirely irrational methods like religion, tribal loyalty, charismatic leaders, emotional claims, etc.do seem to be quite good at changing people. Maybe we should try teaching 3rd graders that every time they do drugs, a fairy dies. It couldn't work any worse... could it?
Looks like we're totally screwed.
I'm gonna use that last sentence as a weapon.
One cause that you didn't directly mention: defiance. Often we are trying to shift the mindsets of people who didn't volunteer to get their minds changed and using pretty basic tools to try to do so. A bratty kid being forcefed rudimentary anger management strategies may be as likely to be pissed off by this than anything. A white male employee doing an HR training may feel more identification with their race and gender after feeling those are under attack from a poorly framed training course.
Conversely, entirely irrational methods like religion, tribal loyalty, charismatic leaders, emotional claims, etc.do seem to be quite good at changing people. Maybe we should try teaching 3rd graders that every time they do drugs, a fairy dies. It couldn't work any worse... could it?