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Despite the existence of ideomotor effect being known for almost two centuries, the infinite human capacity for re-invention on the one hand, and their seeming inability to learn from their mistakes on the other, means that people can still fall prey to the same or similar illusions under different packaging.
Despite the existence of ideomotor effect being known for almost two centuries, the infinite human capacity for re-invention on the one hand, and their seeming inability to learn from their mistakes on the other, means that people can still fall prey to the same or similar illusions under different packaging.
=== People supposedly ‘born that way’ ===
=== People supposedly ‘born that way’ ===
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! style="font-size:120%; background:yellow; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Mr. A not believing to be Mrs. B anymore
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| style="padding:15px;" |''«In retrospect Mr. A decided that the combination of his anxiety when approaching and meeting people, the teasing rejection by heterosexual males [which he had reported in childhood] and the comfortable acceptance by homosexual males who pursued and courted him had helped convince him of his homosexuality. Passive homosexual behavior allowed him to avoid the severe anxiety experienced when initiating courtship.»''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Journal of Clinical Psychiatry<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Satinover |publisher=BakerBooks |place=Michigan |year=1996 |pages=190-1 |isbn=978-0-8010-5625-3 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jlafJCzJWP4C}}</ref> </div>
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Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].
Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].
The reported cases of [[ex-homosexuals]] had revealed there is no mysterious force at play, natural or [[supernatural]], [[biological]] or otherwise – just a propensity for men and women to delude themselves. The evidence is clear – believing to be ''‘born that way’'' is nothing more than self-delusion buttressed by yet another variant of the ideomotor effect.
The reported cases of [[ex-homosexuals]] had revealed there is no mysterious force at play, natural or [[supernatural]], [[biological]] or otherwise – just a propensity for men and women to delude themselves. The evidence is clear – believing to be ''‘born that way’'' is nothing more than self-delusion buttressed by yet another variant of the ideomotor effect.