[[Our difficulty and effort put into understanding media influences how critical we are]] can explain why biased perspectives can be more compelling than ones that look at both sides. it is easy to follow something persuasive, ESPECIALLY if it's something we already believe in 😅 Confirmation isn't only about being more accepting of external information that supports our beliefs, but also our own: - ![[Thinking, Fast and Slow#^p0qjwo]] - We can't even comprehend our previous arguments bruh - is this because they didn't really think about their past opinions strongly and so they were more impressionable or is this because they genuinely did not have the capacity to embody their past opinion