There's a kind of evolutionary psychology school of thought that we're exceptionally sensitive to rule breaking. We have many people who speak to are not convinced by that and think it's more to do with familiarity or kind of concreteness. So you can scaffold people's reasoning but there's obviously when things get abstract our reasoning is often, unless you've got very specialist training often tends to collapse. And this is the first time this has been put into a nice quantifiable super framework with an app and everything else.
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon