You Are Not So Smart 276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa
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Dec 18, 2023 Podcast host Andrea Chalupa interviews David McRaney about psychological research on handling contentious conversations, including tips for holiday discussions, persuasion techniques, effective communication, empathy and understanding, and the power of conversations in changing minds.
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Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values
- Beliefs are estimations of truth, measured by confidence.
- Attitudes are positive or negative estimations, while values concern resource allocation.
Assimilation and Accommodation
- Minds change through assimilation (fitting new info into existing beliefs) and accommodation (adjusting beliefs for new info).
- We resist accommodation as it requires more cognitive effort.
Motivated Reasoning
- We are motivated reasoners, meaning we seek reasons to justify our beliefs, even if not accurate.
- Belonging often supersedes accuracy in motivating our reasoning.