MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell October 12, 2021 02:30:00
Down and there's very little you can do with the relatively uninformed swing voter about that? >> yeah, what i would say about that is motivated cognition is a hell of a drug. what i mean by that, the more the descriptor of the human cognitive processing system will be i'll see it when i believe it, not the other way around. what we find in experiment after experiment is that when people have already cemented a world view, they in essence have a frame around what is occurring, then facts are simply impervious to it. they bounce off of it, right? in lay terms if you've ever had the experience o...
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