{"id":3054,"date":"2018-09-07T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2018-09-07T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:11:28","slug":"resource-of-the-week-this-article-wont-change-your-mind-and-the-facts-on-why-facts-alone-cant-fight-false-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2018\/09\/07\/resource-of-the-week-this-article-wont-change-your-mind-and-the-facts-on-why-facts-alone-cant-fight-false-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: &#8220;This article won\u2019t change your mind and the facts on why facts alone can\u2019t fight false beliefs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/03\/this-article-wont-change-your-mind\/519093\/?utm_source=atltw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3055 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-10-300x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-10-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-10-1024x838.png 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-10-768x629.png 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/06\/Capture-10.png 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: screenshot from the article<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-154380542\/this-article-wont-change-your-mind-the-atlantic-julie-beck\">Listen to the audio version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/03\/this-article-wont-change-your-mind\/519093\/?utm_source=atltw\">This article<\/a> delves into scientific explanations for the truth in this quotation (in the article):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u201cA man with a conviction is a hard man to change,\u201d [Leon] Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schacter wrote in\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/ia801405.us.archive.org\/31\/items\/pdfy-eDNpDzTy_dR1b0iB\/Festinger-Riecken-Schachter-When-Prophecy-Fails-1956.pdf\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'519093'\"><em>When Prophecy Fails<\/em><\/a><em style=\"font-size: 16px\">,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">their 1957 book about this study. \u201cTell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point \u2026 Suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a long read, but worth the investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: screenshot from the article Listen to the audio version This article delves into scientific explanations for the truth in this quotation (in the article): \u201cA man with a conviction is a hard man to change,\u201d [Leon] Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schacter wrote in\u00a0When Prophecy Fails,\u00a0their 1957 book about this study. \u201cTell him you disagree and he turns away&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16,17],"tags":[64,113,114,115,118,120],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","category-scicomm-2","tag-dealing-with-disbelief","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm-about-controversial-topics","tag-scicomm-by-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}