Research results show that 'experience-based episodes' are more important than 'facts' to persuade people with disagreements
As a result of psychological experiments, people are more likely to talk about their experiences with their own episodes when they are discussing their opposite opinions than when they are telling the exact facts. Research results have been reported that people will respect their opponents.
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts | PNAS
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https://www.livescience.com/facts-dont-win-political-arguments.html
On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump, who confronted the elected President Joe Biden, attacked the US Capitol, where the House and Senate meetings to decide the president are being held. In response to this incident, President Biden insisted in his speech at the presidential inauguration ceremony held on January 20, 2021, that 'America needs unity now.'
[With uncut simultaneous interpretation] New President Biden's inauguration speech 'Unity is the way forward' (January 21, 2021) --YouTube
However, according to a Pew Research Center survey, the average opinion gap between Democrats and Republicans has increased from 15 points to 36 points on 10 agendas since 1994. This means that in the last few decades there has been a growing disagreement between Republicans and Democrats.
'It's important for Americans to respect the facts in order to respect their opinions in moral or political debates,' said a research team led by Kurt Gray, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina. I insisted that I did an experiment.
The experiment was conducted with 251 people, and on 15 types of topics such as tax and gun regulation issues, abortion issues, etc., 'Assuming that the other party disagrees, what is important when respecting the other party's opinion I asked. Then, 56% answered 'facts and evidence' and 21% answered 'personal experience'.
Furthermore, in another experiment, we asked 859 people whether they could respect 'people who argue based on facts' or 'people who argue based on experience'. Many respondents reported that they were rational and respectable.
However, when we investigated the cases of actual discussions online and on TV, we found that people are more likely to respect the people who give their opinions based on their experiences. In other words, when discussing moral and political topics, it is easier for people to respect specific episodes than the logical facts themselves.
Also, in another experiment with 508 people, when asked about their impressions of the discussion about gun control, they said that people who support the opposite opinion tend to be suspicious even if they say the facts. Turned out. On the other hand, when a person who supported the opposite opinion told a personal episode, he said that he did not have any strong doubts.
The research team argues, 'People are reluctant to respect the other person, even if the other person cites the facts.' 'People can come up with any number of ways to doubt or ignore facts, but it's hard to discuss personal experiences. Someone said,'This terrible thing happened to me.' It's hard to doubt that, even if I say it. '
In addition, Gray argues that people's tendency to respect their personal experiences more than facts has boosted the recent Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements. 'In today's political climate, we need to think about more basic goals, which is to have as much respect as possible in our dialogue with our political opponents,' he said.
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