How to Tell if You're Unhealthy

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People who were told the strip would turn green if they were safe, tended to wait much longer to see the results. When it didn't change colors, 52% of those people retested themselves. People will stare at that strip for 30 seconds a minute longer on average if they think it's bad that it's staying green. Now the other that's saying yellow. They're hoping it's going to turn. And I'm going to go, oh gee, it's just kind of a deer and headlights effect. Right.

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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