Despite the formidable obstacles standing in the way of debiasing efforts, a plausible case can be made that debiasing people against errors in thinking could be among psychology’s most enduring legacies to the promotion of human welfare. [...] If one accepts the dual propositions that ideological extremism is a significant contributor to inter- and intragroup conflict and human suffering and that confirmation bias and its cognitive cousins are significant contributors to ideological extremism, the central research question becomes: ‘‘Can scientific psychology promote human welfare by debiasing the general public?’
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