Why Does Worldview Matter? The Impact of Worldview II – Experiential Accommodation
Worldview is the conceptual lens through which we see,
understand, and interpret the world and our place within it. Worldview develops
in and flows through the heart, the center of the human person, and necessarily
involves answers (propositional or narrative) to four questions: What is our
nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end? Every person
possesses a worldview that provides an answer or set of answers to these core
worldview questions, but these individual worldviews can be compiled under
broad categories.
But why does worldview matter? How does worldview
affect us? Why bother learning about it as a concept, and one’s own worldview
specifically? What does it have to do with life? Simply put, worldview matters
because one’s worldview affects everything that one thinks and does, through confirmation
bias, experiential accommodation, the pool of live options,
and life motivation. Last week, I considered confirmation bias – today I
want to take a look at experiential accommodation.
Worldview and experiential accommodation.
Worldview
influences us by driving us to interpret new data or arguments in a manner that
affirms or fits within our existing worldview. Whenever possible, we interpret
new data in a worldview-affirming manner.
