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The '''backfire effect''' is a [[cognitive bias]] that causes individuals challenged with evidence contradictory to their beliefs to reject the evidence and instead become an even firmer supporter of the initial belief.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html|title=backfire effect|work=[[The Skeptic's Dictionary]]|accessdate=26 April 2012}}</ref><ref name='CJR'>{{cite web | url = http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_backfire_effect.php?page=all | title = The Backfire Effect | accessdate = 2012-05-01 | last = Silverman | first = Craig | date = 2011-06-17 | work = Columbia Journalism Review | quote = When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.}}</ref> The phrase was first coined by [[Brendan Nyhan]] and Jason Reifler in a paper entitled ''"When Corrections Fail:
The persistence of political misperceptions"''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nyhan|first1=Brendan|last2=Reifler|first2=Jason|year=2010|title=When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions|journal=Political Behavior|volume=32|issue=2|pages=303–330|doi=10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf|accessdate=1 May 2012}}</ref>


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==See also==
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*[[List of cognitive biases]]

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