The pathologist quickly became ill with a syndrome that was, to Semmelweis, indistinguishable from that seen in severe puerperal fever, and that ...

Do people reflexively fear the new? They seem to reject it often enough that there's a psychological syndrome to explain it. The Semmelweis ...

The Semmelweis Reflex ... This knee-jerk tendency to reject new evidence because it contradicts established beliefs is called “The Semmelweis Reflex”—​which ...

The Semmelweis reflex or effect refers to the tendency to automatically reject new information or knowledge because it contradicts current thinking or beliefs.

The Semmelweis reflex or “Semmelweis effect” is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it ...

The Semmelweis reflex is still with us ... The sad story of Semmelweis has later been shaped into a metaphor. The Semmelweis reflex means that ...

Semmelweis's story inspired the concept called “Semmelweis effect” – the reflex-​like rejection of evidence or novel knowledge which contradicts established ...

Semmelweis reflex is a human behavioral tendency to stick to preexisting beliefs and to reject fresh ideas that contradict them (despite adequate evidence).

Background: Semmelweis reflex is a human behavioral tendency to stick to preexisting beliefs and to reject fresh ideas that contradict them (despite adequate ...

The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts ...