The notorious “backfire effect” has now been captured in multiple studies.Alex E. Proimos/Wikimedia CommonsOn Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth and his colleagues showed that presenting people with information confirming the safety of vaccines triggered a “backfire effect,” in which people who already distrusted vaccines a ...
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