Psychologist Peter Ditto has been investigating how human beings make sense of new information. In the 1990s, he brought together a group of college students and convinced some of them that they might have a terrible disease. Today, Ditto runs a research community at UC Irvine called the Hot Cognition Lab. Visit BetterHelp.com slash Y-A-N-S-S today to get 10% off your first month.
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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