US EditionStanford researchers find a single question could be the key to changing someone's mind
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Stanford researchers find a single question could be the key to changing someone's mind
The diversity of humanity means people won't always see eye to eye, and psychology tells us that people tend to double down when their views are challenged. When people are so deeply entrenched in their own perspectives they're refusing to entertain other viewpoints, what do we do? Frequently, what we do falls into the "understandable but ineffective" category. When we disagree with someone because their opinion is based on falsehoods or inaccur…
Who has never attended a family meal where a debate about politics, ecology or vaccination turns on the wall against the wall? We pull out the numbers, the studies, the links of articles... and the more we argue, the more the other one gets stressed. We often emerge from these exchanges with the feeling of having spoken in the vacuum. A team from Stanford University has just wondered how to open up these locked positions a little. Their work sho…
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