"Individuals who receive unwelcome information may not simply resist challenges to their views. Instead, they may come to support their original opinion even more strongly — what we call a 'backfire effect.' " Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler I started thinking about this newsletter in 2013, when I was taking a class in cognitive neuroscience and I started reading the research on a very intriguing question: How do people change their minds?
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