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Podcast: Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness
Episode: The Neuroscience Behind Idiotic Opinions - Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites Podcast
Description: Especially in a presidential election year, it’s very apparent that a lot of people hold hard-and-fast opinions about certain things.
Life informs our beliefs – once we’ve seen something or heard something often enough, we come to believe that it’s true, whether it’s factually true or not. That’s the way the brain is designed to work, and it’s how humans can learn as quickly as we do.
It’s also how people come to believe that those who think differently are dumb, or at the very least, misinformed. Algorithms online serve to reinforc...