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We're talking today about how people are persuaded of things.

Why is it that so often we feel like we're banging our heads against the wall when we're having political arguments with people?

That no matter what we say, they won't accept it or they won't

accept the evidence that we're presenting, what's going wrong? What are we doing wrong in so many of

these encounters we have with people who disagree with us? Why is it so difficult to crack through?

And why are arguments on social media particularly fruitless.

What's really going on here?

Well, joining us to talk about this today is Jonathan Haidt, author of the New York Times bestseller,

The Righteous Mind, Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. And this book was mentioned all the way back

on episode 393 by guest Michael Malice. He mentioned this in the course of a discussion that

we had about how to persuade people of our ideas as libertarians. And the book intrigued me. So we got Jonathan Haidt on here to talk to us.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership

at New York University's Stern School of Business. Before coming to Stern, he taught for 16 years

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