Maybe find a way to communicate (maybe minimally or nonverbally) that you understand, that you're "getting" what they're trying to say, without indicating agreement or disagreement?
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Typically, the autonomic nervous system is activated with a fight-flight response when we signal a reaction to or interrupt other people's expressions. Introspecting on this reaction is useful in managing one's own cognitive biases & developing tolerance for negative emotion.
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It is the absence of this performative dance that makes it possible to be honest on twitter and for some of us is liberating for the authenticity it facilitates. Unfortunately some people throw this away in exchange for anonymity because they think that provides a similar benefit
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Street Epistemology 101.
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But is no reaction at all not also a form of signalling?
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Or flip this around to control the speaker's message by your acute reactions.
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Well, a good speaker needs to gage his counterparts reaction to adjust the way he transmits his message.
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*nods vigorously as you are saying this*
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Brilliant, insightful observation.
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