It was an excellent article i thought. Heh, a sister just called from Providence R.I., interrupted the drafting of this post for a couple of hours. When i told her what i was doing she was interested in exactly what a "blue lie" was. We all know about the white and black, but the blue was a new one for her too. To revisit a few bits:
Can the Science of Lying Explain Trump’s Support? [...] As University of Toronto psychologist Kang Lee explains, blue lies fall in between generous “white” lies and selfish “black” ones. “You can tell a blue lie against another group,” he says, which makes it simultaneously selfless and self-serving. “For example, you can lie about your team’s cheating in a game, which is antisocial, but helps your team.” P - From this perspective, lying is a feature, not a bug, of Trump’s campaign and presidency. It serves to bind his supporters together and strengthen his political base—even as it infuriates and confuses most everyone else. In the process, he is revealing some complicated truths about the psychology of our very social species. [...] How anger fuels lying Here we come to the role of anger. Sociologists like Arlie Hochschild and Katherine J. Cramer have found widespread rage and resentment among GOP voters, specifically against educated, urban liberals. Other studies have found extreme hostility for constituencies that are perceived as Democratic, such as women, immigrants, and African-Americans. P - This anger is the soil in which lies can grow. [...] This line of research suggests that while black lies drive people apart and white lies draw them together, blue lies do both: They help bring some people together by deceiving those in another group. For instance, if a student lies to a teacher so her entire class can avoid punishment, her standing with classmates might actually increase. [...] We can start by verifying facts and refusing to promote ones that we can’t, seeking out different and competing news sources, cultivating a diverse social network, sharing information with integrity—and admitting when we fail.In their paper, Flynn, Nyhan, and Reifler describe a series of research-validated steps we can take to encourage ourselves and the people around us to stick to reality: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168866694
As it has been pretty much our focus on Tornado Alley, it was gratifying to read that most emphasized bit,
We have read over years many articles saying that research suggests the presentation of facts contradictory to another's belief is not generally as productive as we might hope and expect it to be. In fact it actually works against any intent of changing the other's mind. Here are some earlier articles on the topic:
2017 - Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain [...] Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth University who studies false beliefs, has found .. reifler.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf .. that when false information is specifically political in nature, part of our political identity, it becomes almost impossible to correct lies. When people read an article beginning with George W. Bush’s assertion that Iraq may pass weapons to terrorist networks, which later contained the fact that Iraq didn’t actually possess any WMDs at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the initial misperception persisted among Republicans—and, indeed, was frequently strengthened. In the face of a seeming assault on their identity, they didn’t change their minds to conform with the truth: Instead, amazingly, they doubled down on the exact views that were explained to be wrong. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=136640226
This article as well as mentioning the blow-back against facts thing underlines why fact-checking is seen as so important on this board. LOL not here, of course, but there were Dems went to extremes on the Trump-Russia thing:
2017 - Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia [...] - "Liberals fall for lies for the same reasons conservatives do: partisanship" - [...] To understand how Democrats started falling for this stuff so quickly, I turned to three scholars: Dartmouth’s Nyhan, the University of Exeter’s Jason Reifler, and Temple’s Kevin Arceneaux. The three of them all work in a burgeoning subfield of political science, one that focuses on how people form political beliefs — false ones, in particular. All of them were disturbed by what they’re seeing from the Russiasphere. P - “I’m worried? Alarmed? Disheartened is the right word — disheartened by the degree to which the left is willing to accept conspiracy theory claims or very weakly sourced claims about Russia’s influence in the White House,” Reifler says. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132197718
2015 - Ted Cruz Isn't an Idiot, He's Delusional and That's Far More Dangerous [...] "Peg, numbers of delusional voters in the USA will forever make Ted Cruz and his ilk a danger." For those who think like Cruz, there is virtually no amount of data, reality checks or facts that can persuade them to give up their false ideas. [...] Researchers have long worried about the connections between democracy and public knowledge. For obvious reasons, an informed electorate is a key part of a strong and effective democracy. Voters need to have relevant facts in order to make good choices at the polls. But research .. http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/articles/PolBehavior-2010-Nyhan.pdf .. by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler explains that there is a vast difference between an uninformed public and a misinformed one. [...] If you care about truth and think it should influence political decisions, this is highly disturbing. But it gets worse. Nyhan and Reifler further suggest .. http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/articles/PolBehavior-2010-Nyhan.pdf .. that those who hold misinformed beliefs are even less likely to learn from correcting information than those who have no clue. .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=113758702
Lastly an old favorite, the first i recall on the subject. It's also linked in the one just above:
2010 - How Facts Backfire .. bit .. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=52247903
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