SquareSpace - A New Year's Resolution

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This episode is brought to you by SquareSpace. It gives you the ability to create an online platform from which you can easily make your next move into a reality. With award-winning templates, creating your website is a simple, intuitive process. You can add and arrange your content and features at the click of a mouse. There's nothing to install, patch, or upgrade ever. If you do have a question, SquareSpace provides 24-7 customer support.

If dumping evidence into people’s laps often just makes their beliefs stronger, would we just be better off trying some other tactic, or does the truth ever win?

Do people ever come around, or are we causing more harm than good by leaning on facts instead of some other technique?

In this episode we learn from two scientists how to combat the backfire effect. One used an ingenious research method to identify the breaking point at which people stop resisting and begin accepting the fact that they might be wrong. The other literally wrote the instruction manual for avoiding the backfire effect and debunking myths using the latest psychological research into effective persuasive techniques.

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