This is super neato, I love an ingroup/outgroup intervention lever, people overestimate the negative backlash they'll get from their political group for changing their minds on something and if you work through an intervention to remind yourself that you've cared for a group loyally, you have less of that disproportionate fear

Fits in self-affirmation findings, where self-affirmation helps us 'shore up the self' to take riskier actions

https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2024/wp-24-25.pdf

Working paper linked, but publication of record is JPSP: https://awspntest.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspi0000516

@grimalkina This reminds me of a Cautionary Tales podcast about Charlie Veitch, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who changed his mind and the backlash from his in group.

From memory, they had a discussion about the need for an alternative group to feel part of in order to break free of group loyalty.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/cautionary-conversation-the-conspiracy-theorist-who-changed-his-mind

Cautionary Conversation: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind | Cautionary Tales

David McRaney on why persuasion isn't always the right answer.

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