Mind Spectrum
You Win Arguments by Admitting You Don’t Get It
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Want to win an argument? Stop arguing.
A 2013 study in Psychological Science found something that breaks every heated debate you’ve ever had: when people were asked to explain, step by step, how a policy they strongly supported would actually work, their own opinion got more moderate. Not because someone proved them wrong — because they realized they didn’t actually understand it.
In this…