I am not trained in psychology. While reading the classic When prophecy fails I encountered a series of passages in which the authors show that there exist certain mechanisms by which people can avoid changing certain beliefs in spite of evidence that contradicts them but that, at a given point, they end up changing the beliefs in question (for example, "His conversion proved to be too much for most of his followers in Europe, however, and the movement there soon collapsed"). However, in this book I have not been able to find if the theory predicts what the "breaking point" is, i.e., at what point people stop being "conservative" and trying to "protect" their beliefs and accept, instead, to give them up. Does such a prediction appear in other texts of this theory?
Thanks in advance
Claudio
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