SIO324: How To Be Persuasive, According to Science
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
With so many people in our country seemingly living in an alternate universe of facts, persuading people to change their mind has never been more important. But... how can we actually do that? What actually works? Dr. Lindsey Osterman is here to science us about it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 324. I'm Thomas and I am joined |
| 0:17.3 | by Dr. Lindsey Osterman. How you doing? |
| 0:20.1 | Wonderful. How are you? |
| 0:21.7 | I don't believe you persuade me that you're doing wonderful. |
| 0:25.2 | Tell me this expert. |
| 0:27.2 | An expert on being wonderful and I am in fact wonderful. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to talk about persuasion here. I think this is a good topic because frankly |
| 0:38.7 | I'm incredibly worried about the trajectory of this place that we call this crap country. |
| 0:45.1 | It feels like there's nothing, I said this on the OAQ and A the other day, but I meant |
| 0:49.5 | to do an episode on this show talking about some of these ideas. But anyway, I'm worried |
| 0:53.9 | that there's no force that is making things better with respect to the divide in facts. |
| 1:00.5 | We just all kind of know that there's half the appeal, whatever the amount of people in |
| 1:05.6 | the country that are in a different reality as we've been talking about for the last five, |
| 1:09.7 | six years. We're all just forced to watch that in slow motion and be like, wow, poof, |
| 1:16.8 | man, there's a guy like Austin Powers. There's a guy that's going to get run over by this steam |
| 1:22.8 | roller, whatever that is in that movie. There's just slow motion like, how far are they |
| 1:27.2 | going to go? How far out of off the beaten path of the fact universe are you going to go? |
| 1:34.4 | And I don't really see how that's getting better, but fortunately, we're going to talk |
| 1:38.9 | about possibly some ways to convince people who disagree with us here. I can't wait. |
| 1:45.5 | I don't want to oversell it. I don't think I'm about to fix the country or anything. |
| 1:49.3 | One thing that's relevant from this issue that we're talking about here with the divide |
| 1:54.6 | in facts is that Fox News and other super right wing sources have perfected the art of undermining |
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