Overview: Politics
Relevant resources
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
Fighting people with facts only makes them cling to their beliefs more strongly, further polarising our damaged societies. Different tactics are needed, and they start closer to home than you think.
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social media,
psychology,
persuasion,
cognitive,
backfire effect,
filter bubble,
brexit,
polarization,
europa,
disinformation,
dissonance,
eurosceptics,
yanss
youarenotsosmart.com
People on opposing sides of the political spectrum read the same articles and then the same corrections, and when new evidence was interpreted as threatening to their beliefs, they doubled down. The corrections backfired. Once something is added to your collection of beliefs, you protect it from harm... Just as confirmation bias shields you when y…
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
I’ve been meaning to blog about the ‘backfire effect’ cognitive bias since first coming across it last December. It went to the top of my ToBlog list thanks to a little serendipity...
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psychology,
cognitive,
backfire effect,
filter bubble,
identity,
science communication,
newsletter,
yanss