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Despite may refer to: A common preposition; Despite (band), A Swedish metal band; USS Despite, an Adroit-class minesweeper of the United States Navy
Economists and behavioral scientists use a related term, sunk-cost fallacy, to describe the justification of increased investment of money or effort in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost") despite new evidence suggesting that the future cost of continuing the behavior outweighs the expected benefit.
Paradiplomacy may be performed both in support of and in complementarity to the central state conducted diplomacy, or come in conflict or compete with it.In 1990, Ivo Duchacek pointed out a distinction between different types of paradiplomatic engagements: a) cross-border regional paradiplomacy, b) transregional paradiplomacy and c) global paradiplomacy, to describe: a) contacts between non ...
Manchin managed to escape the gravity of partisanship, even despite it being in a state Trump won by 40 points. He later switched to Independent status, before ultimately decilining to run for re-election. Since 2017, most U.S. House or state legislative seats held by Democrats in the South are majority-minority or urban districts. Due to ...
Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism [1]) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it. [2]Since rationality involves conceptual flexibility, [3] [4] belief perseverance is consistent with the view that human beings act at times in an irrational manner.
Despite these high correlations with conscientiousness, it is suggested that [clarification needed] grit is more strongly associated with longer term and multi-year goals such as education. [4] Large studies suggest only weak links of grit to these long term goals, [14] much smaller than links to [clarification needed] IQ and to conscientiousness.
Conscience was a major factor in the refusal of Aung San Suu Kyi to leave Burma despite house arrest and persecution by the military dictatorship in that country. [242] Conscience was a factor in Peter Galbraith's criticism of fraud in the 2009 Afghanistan election despite it costing him his United Nations job. [243]
A delusion [a] is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. [2] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence.