YANSS 276 – How to handle contentious conversations with people ready to get angry over how your opinion isn’t their opinion
In this episode David McRaney is interviewed by Andrea Chalupa about the psychological research covered in How Minds Change that could help if you expect to spend time with a family member this holiday who can’t wait to pull you into an argument about politics, a wedge issue, or something else buzzing in the zeitgeist over which they’d love to start a fight. But, also, this is good stuff to know before ANY contentious conversation you might have in the future with someone who is quick to aggression and ready to get angry over how your opinion isn’t their opinion.
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Andrea Chalupa graduated from the University of California, at Davis with High Honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, she studied Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the International School of Ukrainian Studies in L’viv, Ukraine. As a journalist, she cut her teeth in the newsrooms of Conde Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance, and has written articles and columns for The Daily Beast, Forbes, TIME, and The Atlantic. Since 2004, while finishing her History thesis on the role of religion in Ukraine’s independence movement at the fall of the Soviet Union, she began dreaming up a screenplay that would take her fifteen years to research, write, and produce. That screenplay became MR. JONES, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. Much of the research for the film was compiled into her book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which has been taught in classrooms in Canada and Ukraine through the genocide education program Orwell Art.
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