HARSH LIFE MAKES ALL MORE GULLIBLE
People who have suffered life’s hard knocks while growing up tend to be more gullible than those who have been more sheltered. The research analyzing results from 60% participants suggest such people could be more open to suggestion in police interrogation or to be influenced by the media or advertising campaigns. the study found that while some people may indeed become more HARD-NOSED through adversity, the majority become less trusting of their poor own judgment.
People who have
experienced an
adverse childhood and adolescence are more likely to come up to believe information that is not true-in short they are more suggestible, and easily mislead, which impact upon their future life choices; they might succumb to peer pressure more readily.
Adverse life experiences examined included major personal illness, injuries, miscarriage (from the male and female perspective) difficulties at work, bullying at school, being a victim of crime, parental divorce, death of family members and others. 70% of the people the variation across in suggestibility can be explained by the
different level of negative life
events that they have experienced.
Most may learn through repeated exposure to
adversity to distrust their own judgment; a person might believe something to be true, but when they read something in a news-paper that contradicts their opinion, or they talk to someone with a different view-point ,that individually is more likely to take on that other persons views. this because the person may have learned to distrust their actions ,judgment s and decisions due to the fact majority of the time their actions have been perceived to invite consequences.
In contrast the findings also suggest that early
positive life events may have a protective influence over the effects of subsequent adversity. If positive life events predate the negative life events then individual may be more resilient in terms of, not being so badly affected psychologically by the subsequent adverse events However issues may arise if the adverse life events precede the positive, those individual may become ,as a result more susceptible to suggestion and misleading information. Nevertheless, future research will still have to examine this .the order of life events experienced, however, is seemingly important.
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