IN EPISODE 191:
Too many people are stuck in a certainty trap. When we treat our knowledge as definitive and our values as obvious and unquestionable, the result is polarization and contempt. In Episode 191, Ilana Redstone traces the reasons we fall into the certainty trap and offers a way out. We explore three fallacies that cause us to label others as ignorant and hateful, why "talking to the other side" isn't a magic cure, and the learnable traits we can develop to become less certain but more confident.
ABOUT ILANA REDSTONE:
Dr. Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She
earned a joint Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves
More―and How We Can Judge Others Less.
