The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
This American Life focuses on a group of surveyors in California and their findings about the best way to change people’s minds. In the study they found that the best way to change someone’s mind was to make a connection opposite of what they disagree with. The surveyors focused on convincing people who voted for proposition 8, a law that would make it illegal for gay people to get married, and they attempted to change their mind on how they…
