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Perseverance effect
Perseverance effect refers to the tendency for people to make self -evaluations that are consistent with information that has been discredited.
Perseverance effect also refers to the finding that people's beliefs about themselves and the social world persist even after the evidence supporting these beliefs is discredited.
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