Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics Coppock Alexander
Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics Coppock Alexander A bold re-examination of how political attitudes change in response to information.Many mistakenly believe that…
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Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics Coppock Alexander
A bold re-examination of how political attitudes change in response to information.Many mistakenly believe that it is fruitless to try to persuade those who disagree with them about politics. This book challenges the dominant view that persuasive information can often backfire because people are supposedly motivated to reason against information they dislike. However, Persuasion in Parallel shows that individuals do, in fact, change their minds in response to information, with partisans on either side of the political aisle updating their views roughly in parallel.
Instead, it shows that most everyone updates in the direction of information, at least a little bit. Drawing on evidence from a series of randomized controlled trials, the book shows that the backfire response is rare to nonexistent. The political upshot of this work is that the other side is not lost.