People mid-way out of a worldview need acceptance alongside facts

Evidence

People who are currently undergoing a transformation process like the ones our interviewees in Chap. 3 described are actually the most important contacts you can reach in discussions. They are looking for information – and often for a new environment that will accept them despite their new, more critical perspective. Accordingly, it would be particularly important for them to get help in accessing verified scientific facts on the one hand, and on the other hand to feel accepted and not rejected or laughed at because of their previous views. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 313

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes deconversion and de-radicalization literature showing social belonging drives abandonment of belief systems.

Related

• Leaving a belief system needs external confirmation of a life outside it (similarity 0.80)