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144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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How Science Progresses

Dartmouth political science professor Brendan Nihan and his colleagues found that the backfire effect failed to replicate their study. They then asked people who had positive attitudes towards Trump and negative attitudes toward Clinton to read two incorrect statements made by Trump on the campaign trail. After reading the corrections, most of them changed their beliefs about what they thought was a crime epidemic in America. The results showed that people had quickly and without hesitation updated their opinions after being exposed to new information.

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