Reasonable Doubt

A Guide to Changing Someone Else’s Beliefs

Use the science of persuasion to your advantage

Kate Morgan
Forge
Published in
6 min readFeb 25, 2019

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Illustration: Keith Rankin

CChanging minds is hard to do: When our most dearly held opinions — things like political convictions, religious beliefs, morals, and core principles — are challenged, our brains put up one hell of a fight to protect them. Research has shown that when deeply…

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Kate Morgan
Forge
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Kate is a freelance journalist who’s been published by Popular Science, The New York Times, USA Today, and many more. Read more at bykatemorgan.com.