Think Again

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences”
: “Text of Unabomber Manifesto,” New York
Times, May 26, 1996, 
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/unabom-
manifesto-1.html
.
when our core beliefs are challenged
: Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel, and Sam Harris, “Neural
Correlates of Maintaining One’s Political Beliefs in the Face of Counterevidence,” Scientific
Reports 6 (2016): 39589.
trigger the amygdala, the primitive “lizard brain”
: Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain: The
Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998); Joseph
Cesario, David J. Johnson, and Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion with a Tiny
Reptile Inside,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 29 (2020): 255–60.
“Presented with someone else’s argument”
: Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why Facts Don’t Change Our
Minds,” New Yorker, February 27, 2017, 
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-
dont-change-our-minds
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First, our wrong opinions
: Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is
Changing What We Read and How We Think (New York: Penguin, 2011).
I gave a speech
: ideas42 Behavioral Summit, New York, NY, October 13, 2016.

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He told me afterward
: Personal interview with Daniel Kahneman, June 13, 2019.
Even positive changes
: Corey Lee M. Keyes, “Subjective Change and Its Consequences for
Emotional Well-Being,” Motivation and Emotion 24 (2000): 67–84.
evolving your identity
: Anthony L. Burrow et al., “Derailment: Conceptualization, Measurement,
and Adjustment Correlates of Perceived Change in Self and Direction,” Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology 118 (2020): 584–601.