#40: What New Research Tells Us About Persuasion

Josh and Rachel look at a research article published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2019,  Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change, and discuss how it should influence the way we make pro-life arguments.

Standford Business article about the study:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-putting-yourself-their-shoes-might-backfire?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stripes&utm_content=06132019&fbclid=IwAR1gJOnOhwf2vLSzaXlql--Rbds4YF-ImvxR8qfyfVwcBKqXKnWEyuyHXmg

“Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change”:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797618822697

Shownotes:

• 4:00 Summarizing the research.
• 15:16 How ERI develops new apologetics arguments.
• 28:33 Personality research from Jordan Peterson points to reasons behind political disagreement.
• 37:45 Does perspective-taking help with empathy but not creating arguments?
• 42:46 Shared values help to move persuasion forward.