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Tim Ward is co-owner of Intermedia Communications Coaching, Inc. Based mostly in the Washington D.C. space, he works with international organizations serving to them talk higher. He’s a former print journalist, and the creator of ten books. Tim can be writer of Changemakers Books. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, together with his spouse and enterprise companion Teresa.

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Gabe Howard: Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s episode of The Psych Central Podcast, I’m your host Gabe Howard and calling into the present right this moment, we’ve Tim Ward. Tim is the coauthor of the e book Professional Fact: A Sensible Plan for Placing Fact Again Into Politics with earlier visitor, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. Tim, welcome to the present.

Tim Ward: It’s my pleasure to be with you right this moment and thanks to your listeners for inviting us each into their minds.

Gabe Howard: Tim, I’m actually glad to have you ever. Now, you and Dr. Tsipursky’s e book is marketed as, and I’m studying this, this e book units out a sensible plan to make reality matter in the 2020 elections. Learn how residents can flip again the tide of submit reality, politics, faux information and misinformation. Now, that’s a giant assertion. And albeit, it feels like one thing that I might anticipate to listen to from a politician that you simply type of roll your eyes and suppose you may’t try this. Are you able to handle this?

Tim Ward: Properly, you’re proper, I can’t try this, however we will do it. Individuals are sick and uninterested in listening to politicians misinform them. They’ve realized that it not solely impacts their jobs, their world, however their well being, when folks lie about the pandemic and what’s inflicting it and what we will do to guard ourselves. So, in the event you elect folks as a result of they lie effectively, you’re going to finish up with individuals who govern mendacity effectively. It’s all linked. And I feel the folks in America don’t need to dwell in a submit reality society the place reality doesn’t matter. Fact does matter. And we collectively can ship a powerful message this election season in order that politicians of all stripes, we aren’t selecting on anybody, of all stripes see that it’s a must to respect your voters. And the means to try this is by telling them the reality.

Gabe Howard: Certainly one of the phrases that you simply use was submit reality, are you able to clarify what that’s?

Tim Ward: Certain, that is one thing that was, I feel, Oxford English Dictionary’s phrase of the 12 months in 2016, and it means on this period, whether or not issues are true or not issues lower than whether or not or not they emotionally appealed to voters, that in the event you inform a lie that’s actually emotionally convincing, voters gained’t punish you for that. They’ll simply say, effectively, it serves our facet. Properly, you understand, politics is quite a bit about

persuasion, but it surely additionally must be persuasion for the public good. And when persons are solely utilizing persuasive strategies to lie and deceive folks about what’s truly occurring, you’re probably not serving the public good. And why is it that individuals will try this? Properly, you understand, we get strongly invested in our facet profitable. In the event you consider anyone who watches a soccer recreation when their staff will get a penalty flag, what’s the very first thing you do? The ref’s blind?

Gabe Howard: Yeah.

Tim Ward: That’s an unfair name. The ref is biased. So, there’s this tendency to need your facet to all the time be proper. That’s a pure human tendency. And in a soccer recreation, what distinction does it make if that’s how you’re feeling? However in the case of politics, there’s much more at stake.

Gabe Howard: I’m cynical, I simply need to say that proper up entrance, however don’t all politicians lie? I’m forty-three years outdated and the one reality is that politicians lie.

Tim Ward: Properly, let me, to begin with, agree with that and then qualify by saying that some do it worse than others. A lot of reality checkers are on the market, which may give you a score. What number of lies have been advised? And likewise, when it comes to high quality, there are totally different sorts of lies. There are some lies which are overgeneralizing, exaggerating, possibly hiding some issues which are reality. After which there are blatant lies, you understand, in your face saying one factor at some point and one other factor the subsequent day. After which there’s gaslighting, which is with the media studies on a lie saying, no, they’re the liars, not me. Making an attempt to get folks to doubt their very own sense of actuality. So, one in every of the issues we encourage folks to do is say, OK, suspect all politicians of lies, however particularly the ones that you could be favor. Truth test for your self and see what sorts of lies you’re being advised. Are you being advised extra white lies or exaggerations or are you being intentionally and systematically lied to?

Gabe Howard: Certainly one of the issues that I feel that Individuals don’t perceive is evolution, particularly with politicians which have been in the public eye for a very long time. And the instance that I exploit is myself, after I was 15 years outdated, in the event you requested me, Gabe, what’s the finest soda in the world? I might have mentioned Mountain Dew. And now at forty-three, in the event you ask me, you understand, Gabe, what’s the finest soda in the world? I might say Eating regimen Coke. It’s definitely potential that someone placing these two movies again to again could be like, OK, have been you mendacity early in your political profession or are you mendacity now to turn out to be no matter I’m working for? Now that’s only a change in opinion. In fact, we name that flip flopping, I suppose. However

Tim Ward: Proper.

Gabe Howard: I additionally give it some thought, such as you mentioned, exaggeration. Is there a distinction between it is a small home, it is a tiny home, and this home is a thousand sq. ft? I’d should think about that Invoice Gates would suppose that my home is small, whereas anyone that lives in a New York Metropolis Manhattan would see my home is large. The very fact stays, it’s nonetheless two thousand sq. ft.

Tim Ward: Proper. So, there’s one thing actually essential about with the ability to say it’s two thousand sq. ft as a result of that’s a reality,

Gabe Howard: Proper.

Tim Ward: Massive or small, cramped or spacious. These are worth judgments that may solely actually be interpreted when anybody brings it again right down to a reality. So with the ability to talk about info is a vital factor. If a politician says my plan goes to repair this about the nation, it’s authentic to say, oh, yeah? What are the particular particulars of your plan? And if they are saying, effectively, that’s a secret.

Tim Ward: Or if they provide you some concepts about the plan and you say, however that’s the reverse of what you mentioned in the previous, have you ever modified your thoughts? And the politician says, oh, I by no means mentioned that. Properly, that’s what it’s a must to fear about. It’s not a lot whether or not someone modified their thoughts, it’s whether or not or not they are saying, I by no means mentioned that if they really did. We’ve received to be smarter about listening for lies in when politicians communicate. So, there are many other ways which you can attempt to idiot folks. What actually issues is the intent. If a political determine is admittedly attempting to elucidate what they’re doing, they could be exaggerating. They might have some hyperbole. That’s one factor. But when they’re saying issues which are false, possibly even about their opponents’ plans, that’s one thing that needs to be a crimson flag for us. After we get these crimson flags, we must always have a better commonplace resulting in reality test every part else we hear from them.

Gabe Howard: You declare that the present political and media panorama is tilted towards reality and info. Why do you consider that? And the way do you suppose it received that means?

Tim Ward: An enormous a part of it’s social media. We used to dwell in a world the place the mainstream media, massive networks, massive, massive newspapers had budgets to carefully reality test every part. And by and massive, they received issues proper. However the Web has utterly modified the recreation. It’s pushed us on to a 24-hour information cycle. It’s slashed the budgets of the critical information organizations. So, it’s simpler for them to report the information of not simply the day, however the information of the minute. Someone tweets one thing they only ship out increase, information report, so-and-so says X with out severely reality checking X to start with. So, claims are put out and opinions are put out. And it’s more durable to get to these info. That’s compounded by the indisputable fact that on social media, folks share stuff and your pals learn it and we are inclined to belief extra issues which are mentioned by our associates and our household. So, if I see oh, my good friend Gabe simply despatched me this text. Oh, it says alligators are migrating to the Nice Lakes. Wow. I’ll ship that on to my associates as a result of it comes from somebody you belief. You are inclined to suppose it’s extra true. You are inclined to ship it out simpler. And in order that’s why you could have large quantities of misinformation in social media.

Gabe Howard: I simply can’t assist however suppose, is that this simply one other e book that’s anti Trump? Is that basically what you’re saying, that Trump is dangerous? He’s received to go. He’s a liar. And also you simply wrote a e book to show it?

Tim Ward: Properly, there are books on the market like that. Now we have a distinct stand and our stand is the reality issues and any politician who needs to point out the reality issues and signal the professional reality pledge, which is linked to the e book and is then able to comply with that commonplace, we’ll embrace them wholeheartedly. We consider folks can change. And in the event that they do change, they need to be rewarded for selecting to inform the reality, for deciding to be truthful, particularly in the event that they’re public figures. Over a thousand elected officers

have signed the professional reality pledge so far. As to Trump, in response to most information sources, he’s repeated over 20,000 falsehoods and deceptive statements since he’s been elected. It’s an unbelievable quantity and it exhibits an unbelievable disregard for the reality. So, I might say anyone who listens to the president ought to rigorously reality test no matter they hear him say. And particularly, if he says one thing with out proof, they need to ask themselves, why is there no proof for this? Absolutely if he had proof, he’d give it. So, when someone makes claims and they don’t present proof, that needs to be a crimson flag. That needs to be a warning. This declare might not be true.

Gabe Howard: Now, many individuals would argue that he hasn’t made 20,000 false claims. That the liberal media has lied, that the reality checking web sites are biased towards him, that it’s all faux information, and that, in reality, he’s an extremely sincere one that’s simply being attacked by a smear marketing campaign. Now, that basically speaks extra to a cognitive bias, I suppose. And it additionally makes me marvel — we as a society consider that every one politicians are mendacity apart from our man. We by no means

Tim Ward: Yeah,

Gabe Howard: Suppose that the individual that we voted for is mendacity. It’s all the different ones. It truly is a cognitive bias. Proper? Are you able to clarify what that’s and why folks consider it?

Tim Ward: Certain, cognitive biases are psychological blind spots that everyone has, you understand, our brains have advanced to assist us survive effectively in the African savannah and the social mechanisms which are linked to how our brains advanced and advised us to belief and to create a number of shortcuts for who we must always belief and why we must always belief them. And as soon as folks show the traits of the type of particular person we must always belief, it’s straightforward to proceed trusting them. So, somebody would possibly merely say, OK, Donald Trump, movie star, profitable enterprise particular person, I belief him. In order that’s a bias known as the halo impact. And meaning like a halo on an angel. In the event that they’re good in some issues, you are inclined to put a halo on them, on different issues. You consider it like, you understand, film stars who endorse a well being product or a model of watch. Why do they try this? As a result of we expect, oh, this film star, he likes that. It’s received to be good. However in reality, their means to behave effectively or look good-looking has nothing to do with whether or not or not their watch will work. So

Gabe Howard: Very true, very true.

Tim Ward: So, that’s one instance of a bias that basically could make folks make chronically dangerous judgments. I’ll join it to 1 different one, which is named the anchoring bias. And that is as soon as we make a powerful impression, it turns into very tough to dislodge us from that impression. You could possibly consider love at first sight. It’s a great parallel to that. Generally you meet somebody, we fall in love with and we get infatuated and it could take us months to see they’re truly not a really good particular person.

Gabe Howard: Or they’re not good for us, it’s there’s

Tim Ward: Precisely.

Gabe Howard: An idea that I like, it’s known as new relationship vitality. Every little thing is ideal till that

new relationship vitality type of wears off. Proper.

Tim Ward: Proper.

Gabe Howard: Whether or not that takes days or perhaps weeks or months, they’re excellent. However then ultimately actuality units in.

Tim Ward: Proper, proper.

Gabe Howard: However throughout the new relationship vitality section. Oh, it’s addictive.

Tim Ward: Yeah, I feel, certainly, for many individuals, one in every of the issues they discovered engaging about Trump initially was he wasn’t like a politician. He appeared to say precisely what he was on his thoughts. He appeared to not be rigorously crafting coverage positions to please others or the media and lots of people, I feel, like that. So, they’d what was the identify of that? That new vitality.

Gabe Howard: That new relationship vitality. He was totally different. Yeah.

Tim Ward: Precisely. And, you understand, in 2016, that’s comprehensible for some folks. 4 years later, I feel that’s worn off. The brand new relationship has worn off for lots of people.

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Gabe Howard: And we’re again with Tim Ward, co-author of Professional Fact: A Sensible Plan for Placing Fact Again Into Politics.  Now, one in every of the issues that you simply talked about earlier was that over a thousand politicians have signed the professional reality pledge. Are you able to inform our listeners what that’s?

Tim Ward: The pledge is one thing that was created by my coauthor, Gleb Tsipursky, and Dr. Tsipursky is by coaching a behavioral scientist specializing in cognitive neuroscience, how our brains course of reality, reality and lies. So, he created this set of 12 behaviors that, in the event you comply with them, will aid you be extra truthful and much less prone to unfold misinformation, particularly on-line, however will even assist others, assist your pals, your networks higher worth the expressions of reality, too. The professional reality pledge could make you someone who might be extra sure that you’re spreading truthful data on-line and not inadvertently spreading lies. So, doing issues like reality checking, like being prepared to query sources from your pals earlier than passing one thing alongside, can lower the unfold of misinformation and give us a more healthy Web. In order that’s the objective of the professional reality pledge. And I’ve signed it myself and I can attest it’s modified my conduct.

Gabe Howard: I consider you once you say that it has modified your conduct, however we’re not focused on Tim Ward proper now. How have you learnt, or how does Dr. Tsipursky know that this professional reality pledge goes to alter folks’s conduct in any respect?

Tim Ward: Proper. Wonderful. That was Gleb’s query too when he got here up with it. As a result of he’s a scientist, what he did is he reached out and he provided to different scientists the alternative to conduct analysis experiments on the professional reality pledge. And never one, however two peer-reviewed research have been printed in scientific journals now testifying to the vital conduct change that those that signed the professional reality pledge have made of their social media. So, what they merely did is that they studied folks’s social media conduct. Then folks took the pledge and then they studied their conduct after that. Now, as a result of social media is on the market it was truly straightforward to do. From the time I signed the pledge, they may observe their conduct the 4 weeks after they signed and the 4 weeks earlier than they signed and see whether or not or not they have been forwarding on and passing alongside stuff which was not correctly reality checked or true. So these research at the moment are printed. The small print about them are in the e book. And we invite anyone who needs to not solely check out the analysis, however there’s scope for doing extra analysis into it too.

Gabe Howard: I like something that that’s backed up by reality, and it’s attention-grabbing that you simply mentioned you’ll take a look at the 4 weeks earlier than on social media. Certainly one of the advantages of that, in fact, is that they haven’t signed it but and they most likely don’t know they’re going to signal it. Proper. So, once you go

Tim Ward: Proper.

Gabe Howard: Again to these 4, it’s pure.

Tim Ward: Yeah.

Gabe Howard: I imply, it’s, that’s type of unbelievable if you consider it from a scientific analysis standpoint. So, let’s discuss the subtitle of your e book, A Sensible Plan for Placing Fact Again Into Politics. With out studying us the e book, are you able to inform our listeners about this plan?

Tim Ward: Certain, there’s three primary steps, the first step is in the e book, learn it and turn out to be smarter at distinguishing reality from lies. Shield your self. There are sensible issues you are able to do, so it’s more durable to idiot you. The second factor is unfold good practices by signing the professional reality pledge and training truthful conduct on social media and with emails, with what you share. Past that, there’s the social side. You may be a part of the professional reality motion. Signing the pledge is the first step, however you may volunteer. You may

submit about the professional reality motion. And there’s different methods which you can assist the motion. Inform your pals about them. In the event you’ve received associates who you suppose would reply to being extra truthful, you may give them a duplicate of the e book or just electronic mail them about the pledge. Clarify why you signed it. So these two steps, private, your individual relationship and then working as a part of the motion. We consider this plan could make an impression in politics. And let me say one in every of the sensible issues that I’m working with, the one that’s answerable for our volunteers proper now to arrange is not only the presidential elections, however there’s all these debates which are going to be occurring on the town halls with officers up for election. We would like people who find themselves professional reality to face up and ask them questions. Clearly, it’s digital now so,

Gabe Howard: Proper.

Tim Ward: Ask them questions, phone-in and ask them questions. Do you worth reality? Have you ever signed the professional reality pledge? And in the event that they haven’t signed it, to say, will you signal the professional reality pledge? Give them a possibility to signal it.

Gabe Howard: Certainly one of the issues that I take into consideration in every part you simply mentioned is that that simply sounds means too easy. So, I’m going to go to ask principally the identical query utilizing radically totally different phrases. How do you persuade individuals who consider in lies that align with their emotionally motivated reasoning? They consider it. They’re emotionally invested in it. How do you get them to show away from that and as a substitute consider in info that are most likely very uncomfortable to them? How do you stem that tide? As a result of it’s comforting lies versus uncomfortable info, and most individuals need to be comfy. How do you modify their thoughts?

Tim Ward: You might be completely proper, and the unhappy reality is you may’t change their thoughts. There are issues that you are able to do with individuals who maintain that view, however people who find themselves merely invested of their facet and they don’t care about the info. These should not the ones that we’re engaged on reaching with professional reality and the professional reality pledge. We’re engaged on the ones who’ve had sufficient. We’re working the ones who need their nation to be extra grounded in reality and info in its politics. And let’s say just one in 20 folks have come to that realization that reality issues over the final 4 years. Properly, 5 p.c of voters could be sufficient to swing most states.

Gabe Howard: That’s very, very true. Now we have this tendency once we say one in 20, one in 20, that’s not very many. That’s 5 p.c. There’s no person in my life that in the event that they acquired a 5 p.c elevate, that their job wouldn’t take everyone out to dinner and suppose that it was simply the most large quantity in the historical past of ever. In the event that they received a 5 p.c rebate on one thing that they purchased or their automobile or their home simply on and on and on, 5 p.c immediately is that this gigantic quantity till we begin saying, effectively, you understand, we get one in 20 to consider the reality. That’s nothing. Why do you suppose that’s? Why? I imply, why.

Tim Ward: Properly, now, Dr. Tsipursky could roll his eyes at this as a result of I’m not going to supply scientific analysis for what I’m going to say, to me, it’s simply one thing that makes widespread sense. Human nature is deeply rooted in feelings. Folks we care about, concepts that we care about, they transfer us as a lot as starvation and worry. And we will take into consideration numbers, however we don’t really feel them deeply. And meaning we will simply be misled about numbers. We’ve received very peculiar cognitive biases round numbers which might

lead us to make very dangerous selections typically. Folks will hear one p.c as one thing that’s very small and insignificant or as we’ve simply talked about, 5 p.c of small and insignificant, when in reality 5 p.c can imply the distinction between a flood that washes over a metropolis road and one which doesn’t.

Gabe Howard: Proper. It’s attention-grabbing what you mentioned about math, as a result of whilst you’re speaking about math, I hate math. It was my worst class at school. I dreaded them and

Tim Ward: Uh-huh.

Gabe Howard: And I’m not good at it. I don’t like numbers as a result of they’re so inflexible. And that’s, that’s how I’m wired. I like the grey. I like to debate issues, whereas math, 5 plus 5 is all the time ten. There’s no

Tim Ward: Yeah,

Gabe Howard: Wiggle room. There’s no dialogue.

Tim Ward: Yeah. Yeah.

Gabe Howard: 5 plus 5 is ten. There’s nothing to speak about and I, I actually like to speak however I like that human connection

Tim Ward: Yeah,

Gabe Howard: As effectively, you understand. I imply that’s.

Tim Ward: Yeah, I agree with you, the factor that all of us should do is determine what are the numbers that we have to take note of and how can we all know that these numbers are true? Proper. So, there’s a very loopy quantity on the market, which is the “r” quantity, which is essential for pandemics. It’s the charge of transmission of infections. And in the event you’ve received a pandemic occurring and one particular person passes it to 1 particular person or fewer than your “r” is lower than one and the pandemic will die out. But when your “r” is a couple of, the pandemic will unfold. In order that quantity is admittedly essential to scientists. And one in every of the issues that we’ve seen in the US is we will’t get that quantity down under one. Meaning the infections proceed to unfold and it’ll by no means, ever go away if that quantity is larger than one. So it’s a lot of nice significance to the scientists who’re engaged on how will we convey this pandemic underneath management.

Gabe Howard: And but to construct upon that, someone else will discover a utterly totally different quantity, they’ll say, effectively, you understand, solely 2% die and due to this fact that’s probably not essential, or 180,000 folks have been contaminated, however there’s 400 million folks. So, are we actually giving up our constitutional rights and civil liberties over such a small quantity? And it’s very attention-grabbing that we will use math on this means, as a result of, I imply, one, I might argue that I don’t care if the dying charge is one or 180,000, if it’s you or

someone that you simply love, that quantity is admittedly, frankly, irrelevant, as a result of mother or grandma or your little one or your finest good friend are gone. So, it’s attention-grabbing. And I feel it goes again to the cognitive bias that you simply have been explaining. Now we have this cognitive bias in our head that so long as it’s no person that we all know, it’s an insignificant quantity and hey, folks die anyway. However that cognitive bias is destroyed instantly if it’s us or someone that we love. And immediately we get on board and we see this and folks altering their opinions all the time. As a psychological well being advocate, the primary means that I can get someone to concentrate to psychological sickness advocacy is that if they or a beloved one is identified with it, they find yourself in the psychological well being system and they’ve a traumatic and or dangerous expertise. Then immediately they need to repair it. Whereas if I discuss to that very same particular person two years earlier than after they knew no person with extreme and persistent psychological sickness, it’s effectively, it’s fantastic. I imply, folks have medical health insurance. Properly, in the event you’re doing what you’re presupposed to do, it’s they’ve all of those causes that the psychological well being security internet is unimportant to America as an entire. Is it principally like that? Is {that a} good analogy?

Tim Ward: Actually, what you’re pointing to is vitally essential for us as residents, but additionally for our political leaders, and that’s discovering out how one can take numbers that information coverage and join them to realities that have an effect on folks’s lives. You understand, there’s that horrible however sensible quote that Joseph Stalin gave us years in the past. One, dying is a tragedy, 1,000,000 deaths is a statistic. So, from the viewpoint of the place we’re right this moment, understanding what numbers imply, how do numbers truly have an effect on us isn’t solely essential, however being conscious that politicians very often will skillfully abuse numbers to ahead their coverage objectives. They might even be true numbers. So, at the starting of the pandemic, some politicians have been saying, oh, there’s solely 15 circumstances in the nation that encouraging folks to disregard it. After which they have been saying, oh, positive, there’s deaths, however there are fewer deaths than the flu, encouraging folks to disregard it. These have been true numbers, however they have been ignoring the indisputable fact that pandemics have exponential unfold. And in the event you ignore it when the numbers fall, the quantity will get very massive and virtually inconceivable to regulate, which is what occurred.

Gabe Howard: The query that’s nonetheless on my thoughts right here is, do you truthfully suppose that your efforts could make an impression on our political system? I imply, this with all respect, however you wrote a e book that mentioned, hey, there’s plenty of mendacity in politics. Right here’s what we will do higher. And I feel it didn’t we simply know this already. And I feel that exhibits apathy on my half. And I’ve to think about that there’s most likely plenty of apathy in America about what is going on in politics.

Tim Ward: Yeah, it’s out of my arms and it’s out of Gleb’s arms, we will every, each the two of us, however everyone who signed the professional reality pledge everyone who values reality and who’s disgusted by the lack of reality in our politics right this moment. Each particular person has the energy to have an effect on their associates, their networks, others round them, and to have an effect on their very own political system. Whether or not or not this is sufficient to create massive change is dependent upon how many individuals are motivated to make this sort of change. But when there’s one factor that I consider I learn about the United States, it’s that when folks have had sufficient, they’re prepared to face up and create change. I feel that is the 12 months the folks have had sufficient of lives. And it’s my hope, and Gleb’s hope, that they’ll make reality matter and they’ll take a stand.

Gabe Howard: I like that, thanks a lot, Tim, one in every of the stands that you really want folks to take is to signal the professional reality pledge. The place can they discover that pledge and signal it?

Tim Ward: It’s as straightforward as you may think about, www.ProTruthPledge.org, www.ProTruthPledge.org. You cannot solely learn the pledge there, signal it, see others who signed it, however you may as well discover methods to turn out to be engaged and concerned.

Gabe Howard: And the e book’s title is Professional Fact: A Sensible Plan for Placing Fact Again Into Politics.

Tim Ward: Sure.

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