Oooo, neat – How Minds Change is once again available for $2.99 on Kindle AND Apple Books. Here's a post I wrote about the last year of promotion/lectures with a bunch of links and pics and a video I made inside NASA's centrifugal whispering gallery: open.substack.com/pub/davidmcran…

Thank y’all. Yesterday was a big day. How Minds Change went to number one in a few categories and then they stamped this label on here and my inbox got out of hand and then I got over-caffeinated and now I’m going to order some tiramisu

New Substack post – How Minds Change: A Tour Update (and a Kindle Daily Deal): open.substack.com/pub/davidmcran…

Pssst: (whisper voice) How Minds Change will be the Kindle Daily Deal tomorrow on Amazon and the ebook will drop to $2.99 for 24 hours

I just learned Daniel Dennett passed. I join all the reverent voices who’ve shared today how much he helped them level up. He certainly identified great pockets of weirdness that I still ponder over coffee and share over whiskey. Glass raised

Listening to this book right now on audible and surprised as to what I thought I knew about persuasion that I really didn’t. Highly recommend.

We think people who disagree with us are worse listeners pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38630602/ 'Clearly you're not understanding me'

Toronto! I’m starting an event incubator to make our city more fun! Offering support (venues, promo, microgrants) for people who want to create fun, weird, participatory events. Come do an event!

docs.google.com/document/d/1Zl…

In this episode of “You Are Not So Smart”, David McRaney & I discuss reasons why you may not see benefits of #Genius that you expect. I touch on misconceptions & ways to “get it right” by creating collaborative environments you WANT to be part of!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/283…

Dive into HOW MINDS CHANGE, and discover new persuasion techniques for having better conversations! 🌟

From the bestselling author David McRaney comes a brain-bending investigation into the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing. 🧠

🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Unexpected & big: it is famously hard to get people to stop believing in conspiracy theories, but…

A controlled trial finds a 3 round debate with GPT-4 arguing the other side robustly lowers conspiracy theory beliefs and the effects persist over time, even for true believers.

Our new preprint explains why social media creates a funhouse mirror--a distorted perception of social norms.

Because extreme voices dominate discourse on most topics, users develop a false sense of shared norms
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Led by Claire Robertson Kareena del Rosario

The story of how Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky generated a paradigm shift so powerful that it reached far outside psychology and economics to change the way we think about thinking itself: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

AI is already capable of superhuman persuasion

In this randomized, controlled, pre-registered study GPT-4 is better able to change people’s minds during a debate than other humans, when it is given access to personal information about the person it is debating.

Resolved: After you understand how minds change, where do you go to change your own mind?