Actually, our minds and memories are particularly receptive to any narrative. Which can also result in problems, both the narrative fallacy (“Our need to fit a story or pattern to a series of connected or disconnected facts” which leads us to overvalue “facts” embedded in a story format) and undervaluing of statistical and other numerical data. I think that particularly overvaluing contrarian anecdotes is context dependent, since we also overvalue anecdotes we agree with (confirmation bias).
Actually, our minds and memories are particularly receptive to any narrative. Which can also result in problems, both the narrative fallacy (“Our need to fit a story or pattern to a series of connected or disconnected facts” which leads us to overvalue “facts” embedded in a story format) and undervaluing of statistical and other numerical data. I think that particularly overvaluing contrarian anecdotes is context dependent, since we also overvalue anecdotes we agree with (confirmation bias).