Why Facts Don't Change Minds

"The mind is a moral processor, not a logic processor." Have you ever wondered why facts and data rarely change someones stance? Or why we often feel skeptically about what we hear long before we can actually explain why?
Join us for a deep dive into landmark paper in moral psychology by Jonathan Haidt, The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment.

https://motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/emotional_dog_and_rational_tail.pdf

In this session, we will explore the metaphor of the Elephant and the Rider and discuss how our evolutionary history shaped our moral instincts. To get the most out of this meetup, I strongly recommend reading the text. Our goal is to move through the text together, sharing highlights, most important points, parts we found controversial etc.