Can You Change Someone’s Beliefs? (Hint: It Takes More Than Facts)

In this video, I discus beliefs and why it's so hard to change somebody's mind once they're set. I talk about identity and how people wrap their identity around their beliefs. We'll look at a few studies surrounding the issue, and then try to offer up some kind of take away for communicating with others.
Sources:
You are not so smart podcast: https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/
episodes: 93,94,95,144

University of Southern California researchers - Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence
Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel & Sam Harris

The debunking handbook: https://skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html

Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler - research on motivated skepticism

Motivated Skepticism: Use of Differential Decision Criteriafor Preferred and Nonpreferred Conclusions (Study about yellow construction paper) - https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/jpsp-1992-Ditto.pdf

Видео Can You Change Someone’s Beliefs? (Hint: It Takes More Than Facts) канала Clay Arnall