"The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science — and Reality"

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2. What frustrates me is this...

Writers like Mooney have so little to offer by way of suggestions regarding how to handle this problem. Mooney gives us the bland reassurance, "A more scientific understanding of persuasion, then, should not be seen as threatening. It’s actually an opportunity to do better—to be more effective and politically successful," but there's not much of a roadmap to how we might put this into practice.

I've tried to do some things the research suggests in my teaching relatively conservative college students (I line up lots of Republican voices affirming climate change, for instance). I'm not sure it works as well as it needs to.