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Rigidity of Thoughts

Rigidity of thoughts or “cognitive rigidity” is an important component of how radical people reason, perhaps even more so than is commonly realized. Black-and-white thinking or rigidity of human thoughts manifests itself in different ways. Chapter 7 examines how people can be tempted to become rigid in their solving of various non-social tasks, how social rigidity can play up in people’s personal beliefs and their need for social structure, how rigidity is related to people’s need to shield themselves from unwanted thoughts and their need to know and understand things, sometimes culminating in illusions of, and how all this can culminate in rigid radicalization. The chapter also discusses how radical thinking may lead to radical doing.