Emotional Bias in Belief Formation
Former FBI agent highlights how emotional involvement can cloud judgment and lead to belief in misinformation. Examples from recent events underscore the impact of emotion on cognition and decision-making processes. News outlets like Fox News are also criticized for perpetuating falsehoods, emphasizing the need for critical thinking and skepticism in consuming information.
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Former F.B.I agent: when people get emotionally involved in an issue, common sense and reason go out the window. People believe what they want and need to believe. ( It s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic Alan Yuhas) BACK TO PANEL
These last two weeks when looking at McCarthy we saw in the documentary that it wasn t so much about him believing his accusations were true as it was a desire to be seen, to be a spectacle. BACK TO PANEL
Allowed Fox News to lie about the 2020 election, admitted under oath during a case with Dominion Voting Systems. (NPR: "Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars 'endorsed' lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them") BACK TO PANEL
Asked whether he could have told Fox News' chief executive and its stars to stop giving airtime to Rudy Giuliani a key Trump campaign attorney peddling election lies Murdoch assented. "I could have," Murdoch said. "But I didn't." (NPR: "Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars 'endorsed' lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them") BACK TO PANEL
The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' (NPR: "You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers") BACK TO PANEL
Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes. (NPR: "You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers") BACK TO PANEL
What about if someone does believe what they are saying, the conspiracy theories they are spreading? BACK TO PANEL
The fake moon landing guy that stands by the Union BACK TO PANEL
Which is worse, spreading a lie you know is false for some kind of gain (attention, money, etc.) or spreading a lie you wholeheartedly believe to be true? BACK TO PANEL
Although no proven connections were made between Satanic cults and the instances across the nation, some people must have absolutely believed it - the parents who dug under a daycare for instance. How many of them believed? BACK TO PANEL
Does it necessarily matter if they all believed if enough of them got swept up in the mob mentality (like we saw in last week s The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.")? BACK TO PANEL
Wrote about the history of conspiracy theories and states, very credible-seeming people were saying: Occult ritual abuse is all around you. We ve seen it and the signs are visible if you know how to look for it ( It s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic. Alan Yuhas) BACK TO PANEL
Book written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his patient in 1980 BACK TO PANEL
Lanning notes, A lot of this stuff was being disseminated by law enforcement without effort to corroborate it. ( It s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic. Alan Yuhas) BACK TO PANEL
When asked where they obtained information materials would say, oh, I got it from so-and-so ( It s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic. Alan Yuhas) BACK TO PANEL
The credibility of these sources of course would have helped people believe. If someone appears to have authority or trustability people tend to be more inclined to listen to them BACK TO PANEL
Occult ritual abuse is all around you. we ve talked in class about how the idea that the bad guy can be anyone is pretty common within fear rhetoric. Anyone could be a communist, or a terrorist, for example. BACK TO PANEL
Said, If the devil has PR then it is cinema. ( The Devil Worshippers 20/20) BACK TO PANEL
Says my sweet satan when you play it backwards. ( The Devil Worshippers 20/20) BACK TO PANEL
the signs are visible if you know how to look for it. but who determines what these signs are? BACK TO PANEL
And of course theres the idea that this is happening to children. Perhaps it is better to believe, to look for these signs than not, just in case. Right? If you want to keep your kids safe (wanting keeping children safe is a very strong/common rhetorical move). BACK TO PANEL
At the end of the 20/20 videos there is this stress on parents checking in with their children and teens to see if the things they are into are harmless fun or if they are dangerous. BACK TO PANEL
How can we pull apart Lannings statement of when people get emotionally involved in an issue, common sense and reason go out the window. People believe what they want and need to believe when we consider these factors? BACK TO PANEL
Why did they need to believe these claims? BACK TO PANEL
Folkenflik, D. (2023, February 28). Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars endorsed lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud Folkenflik, D. (2020, September 29). You Literally Can t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox s Lawyers. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye Slave Obeys. (2010, July 1). 20/20: The Devil Worshippers Part 1 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG_w-uElGbM Slave Obeys. (2010b, July 1). 20/20: The Devil Worshippers Part 2 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG0ncaf-jhI Slave Obeys. (2010c, July 1). 20/20: The Devil Worshippers Part 3 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSP3j7RJlU Yuhas, A. (2021, March 31). It s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic- panic.html 27
