In this new news and information environment with Google and social media, I believe it's more important than ever to have a psychological literacy. The good news is we know quite a few things about the backfire effect; there are clear, actionable strategies for dealing with it. In two weeks, that will be the focus of our final episode exploring this phenomenon that has always been with us and will always be with us.
If you try to correct someone who you know is wrong, you run the risk of alarming their brains to a sort-of existential, epistemic threat, and if you do that, when that person expends effortful thinking to escape, that effort can strengthen their beliefs instead of weakening them.
In this episode you'll hear from three experts who explain why trying to correct misinformation can end up causing more harm than good.
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