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144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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Is Donald Trump Wanting Mueller Fired?

We would like to think that such attitudes inform our values, but that's not how our brains operate. The digestive system of opinion runs in the opposite direction. We keep trying to feed facts to people up the wrong end of their psychological digestive systems. It goes from regional cultural norms whose normative influence tell us what we should and should not be doing. That informs our values, which we then protect and justify with beliefs by cherry picking the facts.

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