
#116: Change Beliefs, Change Opinions? with Yamil Velez
Yamil Velez is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, where he studies what makes political opinions hard to sh...
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A show about the science of our opinions, where they come from, and how they change. Hosted by social psychologist, Andy Luttrell.

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