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Are you stuck in your rut or open to new points of view?

People are twice as likely to choose to read information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea. Those with close-minded personalities are even more reluctant to expose themselves to differint perspectives.

People are most resistant to new points of view concerning political, religious, or ethical values.

People with low confidence in their own beliefs are less likely to expose themselves to contrary views than people who are very confident in their own ideas.
 
This article reviews 91earlier studies:
?Feeling Validated Versus Being Correct: A Meta-Analysis of Selective Exposure to Information,? 
Dolores Albarracín, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; William Hurt, PhD, Inge Brechan, PhD, and Lisa Merrill, PhD, University of Florida; Alice H. Eagly, PhD, Northwestern University, Matthew J. Lindberg, PhD, Ohio University;  
Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 135, No. 4 at http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/bul1354555.pdf.)

Full post as published by Building Rapport on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).