The 3M Model of False Belief - Livestream

False beliefs are rampant throughout our culture - and imminently consequential, influencing election outcomes and being used to justify any number of policy decisions. So why do so many people cling to such consequential beliefs, even when they’re demonstrably untrue? While many have cited everything from anti-intellectualism to mass delusion to explain this phenomenon, Joe Pierre points to the “3M Model” to understand. 

Join us for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Joe Pierre, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and author of FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren’t True. Pierre’s 3M Model - based on mistrust, misinformation, and motivated reasoning - helps explain the psychology of false belief and offers a more normalizing and humanizing framework to understand both our ideological opposites and ourselves. His presentation includes key lessons from his new book and presents potential remedies based on the 3M Model.

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