Defence
The Semmelweis Reflex
: When Ideas Control Governments
April 16, 2021
Iñigo Camilleri De Castanedo
The Semmelweis Reflex is the rejection of assessments which contradict pre-existing beliefs. The bias, applied to political and military decisions, can be referred to as ideological stubbornness. Semmelweis Reflex & Cognitive Biases The popularity of how psychology affects politics, conflicts and ‘geopolitics’ rises as information plays a bigger role within society. Cognitive biases, the ‘pitfalls’ and natural behaviour of our brain, play a big role in our polarised society as well as in the past. Nevertheless, biases…