Is the inability for people to accept they may be wrong on a topic (and the rationales for that) something that psychology ever discusses in depth? Pride, shame, hubris and ego being factors in whether a person is able to consider they may be wrong on a statement, claim or stance on a topic.  Not only consider wrongness, but accept or note their change of mind.
This was discussed by Erich Fromm, a German social psychologist. In his popular book &quot;To Have or to Be?&quot; he explains this mode of attached to one's own conviction as the modes of existence related to &quot;Having&quot; as if this was one's property that it is about to defend. On the other hand, people living in the mode of &quot;Being&quot; do not &quot;posess&quot; their ideas but are open to learn new things, the best what can happen in a conversation.