Read the 🧵 & study. Researchers changed participants' beliefs about political issues w/accurate info. There's partisan asymmetry in how beliefs influences behavior. Even when you correct Repubs' beliefs w/accurate info, even on their own issues, it doesn't change their behavior.
Read the 🧵 & study. Researchers changed participants' beliefs about political issues w/accurate info. There's partisan asymmetry in how beliefs influences behavior. Even when you correct Repubs' beliefs w/accurate info, even on their own issues, it doesn't change their behavior.
This part, in their future studies section, explains why influence campaigns invest in false personas / false accounts: “ … Prior work found that people are most influenced by others whom they share a common identity (Abrams et al., 1990; Centola, 2011). Therefore, identifying with the source sharing the evidence might increase the likelihood of incorporating that evidence in changing beliefs and behaviors ….” . . Attached: Two of the graphics attached are from a Pitch-deck of AIAdvertising, a successor company to a Brad Parscale company. The pitch deck focuses on consumer goods, but it can be readily used for political campaigns. Parscale was the digital campaign mgr for trmp in 2016. The third graphic is from a RAND book talking about Prigozhin’s IRA. . . Both Parscale and Prigozhin’s IRA created false personas/ accounts to benefit a single candidate in 2016. Both have refined and improved their approaches in their campaigns. Apparently, by using a few real people and augmented by thousands of false personas and some automation.
@profsamperry @Stifor420 So, in un-academic terms:
@profsamperry Of course not. Tribe is too important to identity. Information we accept is filtered through our tribal authorities or we would be overwhelmed. That is our common reality as human beings
@profsamperry Sadly @davidlogannash This may explain why you are so slow to learn & update your beliefs when better data becomes available. Again, “inerrancy” isn’t a hammer or an abuse of power.
@profsamperry Woah, so many good questions. Is religious behavior immune to belief change as well. "We can't legislate good behavior" 'another educational program or subsidy to the poor won't change people's habits, only god can change people.'
@profsamperry Let’s just be aware of the major limitation: both belief and behavior change testing was done in one session— these are by definition only short-term effects. Longitudinal expt studies like Broockman and Kalla are much more expensive yet also can capture different effects.
@profsamperry The problem is who is going to provide accurate information. I find most do not trust information from most sources and rightfully so. We live in a society where all information is presented with a purpose. Look at most surveys about trust in news