Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement

Scientific American by Steve Mirsky | Oct. 1, 2009 (News Report)
Deeply held beliefs make it easy to accept the absurd

A black president, however, causes great cognitive dissonance in some. But members of the “birther” movement have found a clever solution: Obama isn’t really president! Because he wasn’t really born in the USA! Full Story »

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 14, 2009

While I think it's important to better understand why political messages based in falsehoods persist, I'm not sure if Mirsky does right by the science in this piece.

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