- Kolbert, Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds: New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
- NYT, You’re Not Going to Change Your Mind
- Scientific American, How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail: Why worldview threats undermine evidence
Academic/scholarly/peer reviewed:
- Lord, et al. Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979, 37, 2098-2109.
- Kaplan, et al. Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counter-evidence. Scientific Reports 6, 2016.