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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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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