The teacher assigns you to work with the star football player for a group project. Because most athletes you know are not very s
mart and not interested in school, you expect to do all the work. You are pleasantly surprised to discover that your partner is extremely intelligent and very diligent. You believe that you got lucky and suspect that your partner is unlike most other athletes. The fact that your schema for the academic competence of athletes has not changed even in the face of disconfirming evidence illustrates what effect
The fact that the schema for the academic competence of athletes has not changed even in the face of disconfirming evidence illustrates the <u>perseverance effect</u>.
<h3>What is the Perseverance Effect?</h3>
This effect consists of maintaining previous beliefs or thoughts despite the fact that the evidence refutes said thoughts.
This type of effect usually occurs frequently at a social level, where the person has subjective thoughts about an individual or a group of individuals and despite the fact that it is proven not to be true, they tend to assume that it is an isolated case.
