CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS April 6, 2014 17:04:00
Blame. group thinking also takes over when the people affected or interested tend to gather, talk to one another, or communicate in isolation. their convictions tend to get hardened. if everyone you talk to and listen to and watch believes that president obama is hiding his birth certificate, you get even more sure about the secret plot over time. the most important overriding reason, however, is that we human beings don't like to believe that things happen for arbitrary reasons. we search for a pattern. and if we see one, no matter how implausible, we prefer that to the idea of randomness. he...
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