095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three
You Are Not So Smart
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The Backfire Effect
People continue to rely on information even after we tell them it's false. People have only held these beliefs in the study concerning that story for half an hour. It's just a story and they know it. Yet here they are defending this erroneous belief, citing misinformation they know has just been debunked. This reveals so much about the underlying mechanisms behind motivated reasoning,. confirmation bias, disconfirmation bias, attitude, bolstering models of reality - all those things that blend into the backfire effect.
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