Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are kings of this world. -- Thomas Carlyle Today's post is cross-listed with one I wrote for Psychology Today, where I and a social psychology …
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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. -- Samuel Johnson Alcohol-infused parties are rarely good places to confront someone on their socio-political beliefs. But in this real-life …
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -- Plato I have a confession to make—maybe even a confession you, too, would like to repent alongside me. I’m a review moocher. For all …
Great ideas alone don't cause progress; it is the spreading of those ideas that does. -- (Teeny & Petty, 2017) A couple years ago, I wrote a post about my Master’s Thesis; now, however, that …
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. -- Aesop If you've ever used social media, you have probably tried to change someone's opinion on something--and probably done so in vain. Facebook …
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. -- Sir Francis Bacon If humans could answer one question to solve the world’s …
