The Difference in Behavior

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People who get a bad diagnosis are much more active thinking through it, skeptically trying to retest it and find out if it's something you want to believe that you're healthy. People in the other group, they didn't do this. They didn't recheck. And that's because they went searching for information with a goal in mind, with an emotional investment.

If you try to correct someone who you know is wrong, you run the risk of alarming their brains to a sort-of existential, epistemic threat, and if you do that, when that person expends effortful thinking to escape, that effort can strengthen their beliefs instead of weakening them.

In this episode you'll hear from three experts who explain why trying to correct misinformation can end up causing more harm than good.

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