Denialisme

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Dalam psikologi perilaku manusia, denialisme adalah pilihan seseorang untuk menyangkal kenyataan sebagai cara untuk menghindari kebenaran yang tak nyaman secara psikologis. Denialisme adalah sebuah tindakan irasional terhadap validasi pengalaman atau peristiwa masa lampau, saat seseorang enggan untuk menerima kenyataan yang terverifikasi secara empiris.

Bacaan tambahan

Artikel

• Holtcamp, W. (2012). "Flavors of uncertainty: The difference between denial and debate". Environmental Health Perspectives. 120 (8): a314–a319. doi:10.1289/ehp.120-a314. PMC 3440096 . PMID 22854265. 
• Kahn-Harris, Keith (2018-08-03). "Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth". The Guardian. 
• Oreskes, Naomi, "History Matters to Science: It helps to explain how cynical actors undermine the truth", Scientific American, vol. 323, no. 6 (December 2020), p. 81. "In our 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt, Erik M. Conway and I showed how the same arguments [as those used to cast doubt on the link between tobacco use and lung cancer] were used to delay action on acid rain, the ozone hole and climate change – and this year [2020] we saw the spurious "freedom" argument being used to disparage mask wearing [during the COVID-19 pandemic]."
• Rees, M. (2013). "Denial of catastrophic risks". Science. 339 (6124): 1123. Bibcode:2013Sci...339.1123R. doi:10.1126/science.1236756 . PMID 23471373. 
• Rosenau, J. (2012). "Science denial: A guide for scientists". Trends in Microbiology. 20 (12): 567–9. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2012.10.002. PMID 23164600. 
• Scudellari, M. (March 2010). "State of denial". Nat. Med. 16 (3): 248. doi:10.1038/nm0310-248a. PMID 20208495. 
• Sharot, T.; Korn, C.W.; Dolan, R.J. (2011). "How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality". Nature Neuroscience. 14 (11): 1475–9. doi:10.1038/nn.2949. PMC 3204264 . PMID 21983684. 

Buku

• Gorman, Sara E.; Gorman, Jack M. (2016). Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199396603. 
• Norgaard, Kari Marie (2011). Living In Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262515856. 
• Specter, Michael (2009). Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Penguin. ISBN 9781594202308. 

Pranala luar

• Denialism Blog
• "Refusing Flu Shots? Maybe You're A 'Denialist'" National Public Radio