Patrick Liu
Columbia Political Science | PhD Student
- 🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.
- Link: go.shr.lc/4j9My8H We find arguments targeting relevant beliefs produce strong and durable attitude change—more than arguments targeting distal beliefs. To ID relevant beliefs, we elicited deeply held attitudes + interviewed ppl about their reasons using an LLM chatbot. More on why below!
