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Why People Won’t Change Their Minds on Covid-19

Our brains block out contradictory facts without us even realizing it, new research reveals

Robert Roy Britt
5 min readJun 1, 2020

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People love to consume information that supports their views and ignore facts that don’t. Scientific experiments have confirmed this “confirmation bias” over and over. You might be confident that you don’t do this, that it’s a…

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB