Denialisme

Dalam psikologi perilaku manusia, denialisme adalah pilihan seseorang untuk menyangkal kenyataan sebagai cara untuk menghindari kebenaran yang tak nyaman secara psikologis.^[1] Denialisme adalah sebuah tindakan irasional terhadap validasi pengalaman atau peristiwa masa lampau, saat seseorang enggan untuk menerima kenyataan yang terverifikasi secara empiris.^[2]

• Holtcamp, W. (2012). "Flavors of uncertainty: The difference between denial and debate". Environmental Health Perspectives. 120 (8): a314 – a319. doi:10.1289/ehp.120-a314. PMC 3440096. PMID 22854265.
• Kahn-Harris, Keith (2018-08-03). "Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth". The Guardian.
• Oreskes, Naomi, "History Matters to Science: It helps to explain how cynical actors undermine the truth", Scientific American, vol. 323, no. 6 (December 2020), p. 81. "In our 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt, Erik M. Conway and I showed how the same arguments [as those used to cast doubt on the link between tobacco use and lung cancer] were used to delay action on acid rain, the ozone hole and climate change – and this year [2020] we saw the spurious "freedom" argument being used to disparage mask wearing [during the COVID-19 pandemic]."
• Rees, M. (2013). "Denial of catastrophic risks". Science. 339 (6124): 1123. Bibcode:2013Sci...339.1123R. doi:10.1126/science.1236756. PMID 23471373.
• Rosenau, J. (2012). "Science denial: A guide for scientists". Trends in Microbiology. 20 (12): 567–9. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2012.10.002. PMID 23164600.
• Scudellari, M. (March 2010). "State of denial". Nat. Med. 16 (3): 248. doi:10.1038/nm0310-248a. PMID 20208495. S2CID 26207026.
• Sharot, T.; Korn, C.W.; Dolan, R.J. (2011). "How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality". Nature Neuroscience. 14 (11): 1475–9. doi:10.1038/nn.2949. PMC 3204264. PMID 21983684.

• Gorman, Sara E.; Gorman, Jack M. (2016). Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199396603.
• Norgaard, Kari Marie (2011). Living In Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262515856.
• Specter, Michael (2009). Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Penguin. ISBN 9781594202308.

Lihat entri denialisme di kamus bebas Wikikamus.

• Denialism Blog
• "Refusing Flu Shots? Maybe You're A 'Denialist'" National Public Radio