Modern Wisdom

#493 - David McRaney - Where Do Our Beliefs Come From?

Jun 30, 2022

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How to Assimilate

01:19

We All Watch The Same Video, Same Evidence, Different Interpretations

01:17

The Fear of Social Death

00:52

What's the Threshold?

03:29

Introduction

5min

Is There a Vin Diagram With a Strong Overlap?

3min

How Do Minds Change?

3min

Is There a Consistency Bias?

3min

Do You Think We'll Get Through This?

5min

How to Lower Your Anxiety

2min

The Library of Alexandria

6min

The Enigma of Reason

2min

Biological Structures That Lead to Cognitive Mechanisms

4min

10.

What Happens Next?

2min

11.

The Westpor Baptist Church

3min

12.

What Happened When Someone Left a Community?

4min

13.

Is Everyone Doing Something That Nobody Wants to Do?

5min

14.

Social Death Is Scarier Than Physical Death

2min

15.

What Happened in the Jim Jones Massacre

4min

16.

Is There a Set Point or a Current View Bias?

4min

17.

What's the Threshold?

3min

18.

Is Twitter the Best Place to Have a Conversation?

3min

19.

The Conversation Is Changing Her Mind

2min

20.

How Minds Change

2min

David McRaney is a psychologist, journalist and author.

Where do our beliefs come from? How do we form opinions? Why are we persuaded by some points of view but not by others? These are important to understand if we are to avoid developing a biased, unrepresentative worldview, they've also been the focus of the last few years of David's research.

Expect to learn how everybody in a group can believe something that nobody believes individually, why arguing online so rarely works, whether people really are becoming more ingrained into their beliefs, how the Westboro Baptist Church convinces its members, the best ways to persuade someone who disagrees with you and much more...

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