March 19, 2020

What New Research Tells Us About Persuasion

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Josh and Rachel look at a research article published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2019, Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change, and discuss how it should influence the way we make pro-life arguments.

Shownotes:

4:00 Summarizing the research

15:16 How ERI develops new apologetics arguments.

28:33 Personality research from Jordan Peterson points to reasons behind political disagreement.

37:45 Does perspective-taking help with empathy but not creating arguments?

42:46 Shared values help to move persuasion forward.

Related Links:

Stanford Business article about the study:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-putting-yourself-their-shoes-might-backfire?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stripes&utm_content=06132019&fbclid=IwAR1gJOnOhwf2vLSzaXlql–Rbds4YF-ImvxR8qfyfVwcBKqXKnWEyuyHXmg

“Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change”:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797618822697

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