David McRaney

This almost entirely separate emotional reasoning process

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney Steve explained that after thousands of recorded conversations they had found that battling over differing interpretations of the evidence kept the people they met from exploring why they felt so strongly one way or the other. People could remain in …

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It was there, and only there, that a single conversation could change someone’s mind. 

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney “There is no superior argument, no piece of information that we can offer, that is going to change their mind,” he said, taking a long pause before continuing. “The only way they are going to change their mind is by …

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Many people who supported LGBTQ issues in the media had given up

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney When they began their work, the debate about same-sex marriage was burning white-hot in the United States. As with any wedge issue today, people daily gathered online to trade arguments and call one another idiots, and the dominant sentiment was …

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Post-Truth?

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney As the decade came to a close, a New York Times op-ed titled “The Age of Post-Truth Politics” argued that democracy itself was now in danger because facts had “lost their ability to support consensus.” The New Yorker examined “Why …

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