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Reasonably partisan: Belief updating in politically charged contexts (Greta Sanna)

Greta Sanna (PhD student at UCL) visited NYU's Center for Conflict and Cooperation to give a talk on her recent research regarding belief updating in politically charged contexts. The abstract for her talk is below: In politically charged environments, do people update their beliefs rationally when faced with contradictory information, or are they inherently biased by their political identities? In this talk, I will present findings from a study with 200 US participants that examined belief updating in response to corrections of politically relevant misinformation. Contrary to the predictions of the Continued Influence Effect, participants reliably updated their beliefs when provided with corrective evidence, returning to baseline levels regardless of political alignment, worldview congruence, or extremism. Bayesian modelling revealed that participants’ belief updates closely matched rational predictions, suggesting that what often looks like resistance to updating may instead reflect the strength of a specific belief rather than identity-based bias. Importantly, even self-identified extremists were responsive to strong corrective evidence. These results shed light on the conditions under which political beliefs are malleable and have important implications for strategies to counter misinformation and facilitate constructive political discourse.