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Pach said: "So, who is attempting to deceive whom? This illustrates something I find interesting. The willingness you have to accept claims of this kind, without questioning them, depends on your personal outlook, your personal beliefs about life in general, more than it does upon facts. My relative is inclined to accept things like this without question."
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People have a tendency to believe almost any new allegation that confirms prior beliefs, regardless of whether or not that new allegation is true. The anti-Obama forces of today appear to be particularly subject to this standard kind of psychological error. It's actually very interesting. At the same time, it means that trying to correct the error is probably rather hopeless.
Confirmation bias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
and see: List of cognitive biases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases 
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