The Science Behind Reasoning

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Tom stafford is a psychologist at the university of sheffield. In this episode, wo will hear all about some cent research he has conducted. It sheds new light on how we might be able to use science to up date the way we create on line gathering places. We can get the most out of our natural tendencies and abilities to argue and disagree instead of spiraling ever deeper into polarized dead end debates.

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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.

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