When an issue becomes politicized, people's views start aligning with those of the party line.https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1097570251754090498 …
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sacrificing the truth for the tribe
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In other words, people change beliefs when one's stance on some issue becomes a probable signal of membership of the opposite tribe. "Beliefs" are cheap.
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Definitely. This is also why intelligence is such a poor predictor of reasonable beliefs about these politicized issues, which is odd because normally it is a decent predictor of correct beliefs. See e.g. work by
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This study I had in mind https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963662510391723 … but there's a lot more along these lines now.
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