Resumen de Birth of a notion.
The article examines how deeply held beliefs can make it easier for individuals to accept the absurd through a process known as implicit social cognition. Examples are given of U.S. singer Lena Horne's refusal to give a concert to white servicemen who made black Americans sit in the back of the theater while allowing white German prisoners of war to sit up front and the notion that because U.S. President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, he is not officially the president.
