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1788: Spiritual Witnesses and Testimonies w/ LDS Discussions Ep. 43

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The Backfire Effect of False Newspaper Articles

Researchers created fake newspaper articles about polarizing political issues. As soon as a person read a fake article, researchers handed over a true article which corrected the first. After reading that there were no WMDs, people reported being even more certain than before they actually were WMDs and their original beliefs were correct. It just shows that we are hardwired to believe certain things.

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