Reframing and Reality Testing
(Photo by Dean Ayres)
Another good reason to hire a mediator:
People will interpret the same information in radically different ways to support their own views of the world. When deciding our view on a contentious point, we conveniently forget what jars with our own theory and remember everything that fits.
From PsyBlog: How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance.
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