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“The backfire effect”: another reason people still support Trump
I learn so much from reading the New York Times’ readers’ comments. Yesterday, in response to the usual thousands of plaintive, furious comments along the lines of “How does anyone still support this monstrosity?”, Mary, from Connecticut, wrote this: It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, enlarged amydala, the backfire effect
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