True-believer syndrome
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True-believer syndrome is an informal or rhetorical term used by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia. Keene used the term to refer to people who continued to believe in a paranormal event or phenomenon even after it had been proven to have been staged.
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See also
- Cognitive dissonance
- Confirmation bias
- Conspiracy theory
- Critical thinking
- Delusion
- Denial
- Magical thinking
- Superstition
- The True Believer (book)
- "Viruses of the Mind" (essay)
- Wishful thinking
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