Barriers to critical thinking:
- Egocentric Thinking
- Social Conditioning
- unconscious reaction
- reacting in self defense – fear of personal attack – believing one’s ideas and beliefs are an extension of one’s self and must be defended at all costs
- fear of change or an unwillingness to change
- a pathological inability to evaluate, recognize, or accept an idea or point of view that differs from one’s own
- lack of discernment
- distrust in reason
- relativism (relativistic thinking)
- absolutism (there are no exceptions)
- stereotyping
- scapegoating (blaming others)
- denial
- wishful thinking
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