So then I’m forced to conclude it’s some knee-jerk, gut level aversion to being corrected that has no underlying logic or motivation. I cannot even begin to comprehend this.
Looks like pretty standard conditioning to me—people dislike things that are followed by negative feelings, and realizing you’re wrong is a negative feeling (though you can probably learn to take it positively).
Whether one attributes positive or negative connotations to being corrected probably strongly depends of your education, of how your parents and teachers taught you things, of how often the things they taught you turned out to be useful afterwards, of how often being corrected helped you learn things you wanted to learn, of how often the correction went along with mocking or a harsh put-down, of whether there was any reason to “oppose” the correction (for example if another group is trying to impose a certain social norm (way of speaking for example) to your group, and your group opposes that change) … and all that may vary from domain to domain.
(Somewhat unrelated to the above) When I was learning Chinese, one problem I had was that Chinese people wouldn’t correct my pronunciation and grammar often enough, either because they were being polite, or because they were used to my way of speaking and din’t want to go through the trouble. That’s a case where I would welcome corrections, though I can’t guarantee I carry it over to other domains (I’m not as patient when people criticize my driving, and are much more likely to come up with excuses and explanations, and manifest annoyance).
Looks like pretty standard conditioning to me—people dislike things that are followed by negative feelings, and realizing you’re wrong is a negative feeling (though you can probably learn to take it positively).
Whether one attributes positive or negative connotations to being corrected probably strongly depends of your education, of how your parents and teachers taught you things, of how often the things they taught you turned out to be useful afterwards, of how often being corrected helped you learn things you wanted to learn, of how often the correction went along with mocking or a harsh put-down, of whether there was any reason to “oppose” the correction (for example if another group is trying to impose a certain social norm (way of speaking for example) to your group, and your group opposes that change) … and all that may vary from domain to domain.
(Somewhat unrelated to the above) When I was learning Chinese, one problem I had was that Chinese people wouldn’t correct my pronunciation and grammar often enough, either because they were being polite, or because they were used to my way of speaking and din’t want to go through the trouble. That’s a case where I would welcome corrections, though I can’t guarantee I carry it over to other domains (I’m not as patient when people criticize my driving, and are much more likely to come up with excuses and explanations, and manifest annoyance).