School of Associative Socionics: "Butterfly" model of a human psyche

[Waddlesworth]

open mind

Receptive to new and different ideas or the opinions of others.

closed mind

A closed mind (or closed-minded) is someone unreceptive to new ideas or information.

Cognitive Prejudice refers to what people believe to be true: for example, in adherence to a particular metaphysical or methodological philosophy at the expense of other philosophies which may offer a more complete theoretical explanation.

I agree. Being skeptical, from my own experiences, is just based on a fear of 'looking stupid' or something similar. Skeptics anticipate being right and are rarely convinced otherwise. Many, if not most skeptics are frauds(though they will call YOU the fraud!). Just because someone speaks in scientific sounding terms and says they have a scientific idea, doesn't mean much other than that the word 'scientific' is less likely to make the speaker feel stupid.

on the flipside, many people use esoteric sounding terms(like the many people who use 'scientific' terms) but do not know what the heck they are talking about.

It is funny that people who 'practice' socionics would talk about the necessity of things being proven scientifically.