Have you ever spent time and energy carefully crafting a thoughtful social media post, only to get steamrolled by replies that range from snarky to downright hostile? Yeah, same. It's not just the chaos of online discourse that's disheartening – it's the sense that folks aren't even trying to engage in thoughtful dialogue. But what if there's more going on than just ignorance or intellectual laziness? One explanation points to the psychological phenomenon of confirmation bias.
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