But for people who placed themselves ideologically to the right of center, the correction wasn’t just ineffective, it actively backfired: conservatives who received a correction telling them that Iraq did not have WMD were more likely to believe that Iraq had WMD than people who were given no correction at all.
There is this thing called "commitment fallacy" - once you make up your mind and express it you are much more likely to defend that point later on, compared to not having expressed it. Perhaps reading through a text that plays into your beliefs creates an "internal narrative", which in turn evokes the false commitment. Interesting.
There is this thing called "commitment fallacy" - once you make up your mind and express it you are much more likely to defend that point later on, compared to not having expressed it. Perhaps reading through a text that plays into your beliefs creates an "internal narrative", which in turn evokes the false commitment. Interesting.