debriefing-paradigm-partial-belief
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The debriefing paradigm (present evidence → measure → debrief → re-measure) demonstrates that some belief always survives full debriefing, even when participants report understanding and trusting the correction.
Summary
Even when people are fully debriefed—told the evidence was fabricated, walked through the correction, and explicitly reporting that they understand and trust the fix—a measurable fragment of the original impression still persists. This means no correction protocol can fully overwrite what was already learned; there is always a stubborn residue that resists updating, even when the person consciously agrees they have been corrected.