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- Nov 2022
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Our familiarity with these elements makes the overall story seem plausible, even—or perhaps especially—when facts and evidence are in short supply.
Storytelling tropes play into our system one heuristics and cognitive biases by riding on the tailcoats of familiar story plotlines we've come to know and trust.
What are the ways out of this trap? Creating lists of tropes which should trigger our system one reactions to switch into system two thinking patterns? Can we train ourselves away from these types of misinformation?
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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What if instead of addressing individual pieces of misinformation reactively, we instead discussed the underpinnings — preemptively?
Perhaps we might more profitably undermine misinformation by dismantling the underlying tropes the underpin them?
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- Apr 2017
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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A trope is, literally, a turn. In traditional rhetoric, tropes turn words away from their "literal" meaning to a metaphorical one.
would black rhetoric be a "turn" on white rhetoric? or like a fork in the road and taking a different "turn"?
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