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Just learned that people are more susceptible to falling into ideological dogmatism when they are under both acute and chronic stress. Studies show that stress leads to more rigid thinking and inhibits the natural flexibility of the mind.

"(...) there are two of you. (...) You change with the times, with the demands of the environment. You are not strongly rule-bound. You are happy to slip between habits. In fact, you don’t mind having no habit at all. You easily switch between modes of thinking; you are fluid; elastic; you adapt."