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Na het lezen van dit boek weet je: met alleen argumenten verander je niet iemands mening. Zeker in gesprekken over grote onderwerpen waarin twee kampen lijnrecht tegenover elkaar lijken te staan – denk aan klimaat, corona of stikstof.Het goede nieuws: mensen veranderen wel degelijk van mening en doen dat ook voortdurend, hun hele leven lang. En als je de wetenschap daarachter begrijpt, kun je betere gesprekken voeren om iemand (of jezelf) van mening te laten veranderen.In de sociologie, psychologie en neurowetenschappen vond de laatste jaren een revolutie plaats, met veel nieuwe inzichten over hoe meningen worden gevormd en hoe je ze kunt veranderen. In dit boek brengt wetenschapsjournalist David McRaney deze kennis voor het eerst samen, op een toegankelijke en praktische manier.Je krijgt inzicht in waaróm iemand iets vindt en concrete gesprekstechnieken om die mening te bevragen. In een tijd waarin polarisatie toeneemt en ieder debat kan worden afgedaan met 'ja, maar dat is jouw mening' levert dit boek je cruciale kennis op om de uitdagingen van nu het hoofd te bieden.

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Social psychology --- 070 Psychologie --- 241 Hedendaagse wereldproblemen --- 654 Publieke opinie --- Chaostheorie --- Massapsychologie --- publieke opinie --- sociale psychologie --- sociale bewegingen --- klimaatverandering

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In Rationaliteit legt Steven Pinker de belangrijkste instrumenten voor rationeel denken uit, leidt de lezer door de basisprincipes van logica, kritisch denken, waarschijnlijkheid, correlatie en causaliteit, en helpt ons om alleen en met anderen rationele keuzes te maken. Redelijkheid is de belangrijkste troef waarover burgers en bestuurders beschikken. Het onderwerp kan bijna niet actueler. Hoe is het mogelijk dat de menselijke soort de grootste wetenschappelijke inzichten heeft verworven en tevens almaar meer nepnieuws, complottheorieën als QAnon en post-truth-retoriek produceert? In de eenentwintigste eeuw bereikt de mensheid nieuwe hoogten van wetenschappelijk inzicht en lijkt tegelijkertijd haar verstand te verliezen. Na Verlichting nu, waarin Steven Pinker de menselijke vooruitgang bezong, laat hij nu zien hoe we rationaliteit in ons leven en in de publieke sfeer kunnen versterken.

Kritisch denken --- Logica (redeneerkunst) --- Fake news --- Complottheorie --- Cognitive psychology --- Logic --- kritisch denken --- wetenschappelijk denken --- toegepaste filosofie --- 157.1 --- Pinker, Steven --- logica --- rationalisme --- causaliteit --- geschiedenis der wijsbegeerte, 1900-heden, algemeen --- Rationalisme (filosofie) --- Postmodernisme --- Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis) --- 060 Filosofie --- 090 Exacte wetenschappen --- 654 Publieke opinie

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Examining a central assumption widely accepted as being crucial in making democracy work - that politicians form a more or less accurate image of public opinion and take that perception into account when representing citizens - Politicians' Reading of Public Opinion and its Biases presents a paradox of representation. On the one hand, politicians invest enormously in reading public opinion. They are committed to finding out what the people want and public opinion is a key consideration in many of their undertakings. Yet, on the other hand, politicians' perceptions of public opinion are surprisingly inaccurate. Politicians are hardly better at estimating public opinion than ordinary citizens are. Their perceptions are distorted by social projection, in the sense that politicians' own opinion affects their estimations, and on top of that, there seems to be a systematic right-wing bias in these perceptions. The findings imply that one of the main paths to responsive policy-making is flawed. Even though politicians do the best they can to learn about people's preferences, skewed perceptions put them on the wrong track. From a democratic perspective, the central findings of the book are quite sobering. The high hopes that many authors had with regard to politicians' ability to adequately 'consult' or 'sense' public opinion appear to be vain. The book puts forward a plausible driver of the slippage between the public and politics. Politicians are less responsive to people's preferences than they could be, not because they do not want to be responsive but because they base themselves on erroneous public opinion perceptions. (Provided by publisher) Examining a central assumption widely accepted as being crucial in making democracy work - that politicians form a more or less accurate image of public opinion and take that perception into account when representing citizens - Politicians' Reading of Public Opinion and its Biases presents a paradox of representation. On the one hand, politicians invest enormously in reading public opinion. They are committed to finding out what the people want and public opinion is a key consideration in many of their undertakings. Yet, on the other hand, politicians' perceptions of public opinion are surprisingly inaccurate. Politicians are hardly better at estimating public opinion than ordinary citizens are. Their perceptions are distorted by social projection, in the sense that politicians' own opinion affects their estimations, and on top of that, there seems to be a systematic right-wing bias in these perceptions. The findings imply that one of the main paths to responsive policy-making is flawed. Even though politicians do the best they can to learn about people's preferences, skewed perceptions put them on the wrong track. From a democratic perspective, the central findings of the book are quite sobering. The high hopes that many authors had with regard to politicians' ability to adequately 'consult' or 'sense' public opinion appear to be vain. The book puts forward a plausible driver of the slippage between the public and politics. Politicians are less responsive to people's preferences than they could be, not because they do not want to be responsive but because they base themselves on erroneous public opinion perceptions.

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This paper inquires into how individual attitudes to climate issues and support for climate policies have evolved in the context of the pandemic. Using data from a unique survey of 14,500 individuals across 16 major economies, this study shows that the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic increased concern for climate change and public support for green recovery policies. This suggests that the global health crisis has opened up more space for policy makers in key large economies to implement bolder climate policies. The study also finds that support for climate policies decreases when a person has experienced income and/or job loss during the pandemic. Protecting incomes and livelihoods in the near-term is thus important also from a climate policy perspective.

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