Public figures need to be sensitive to motivated reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basi

Public figures need to be sensitive to motivated reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasonin... by the general public when they post. Looking at: https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1301768370497482755?s=20 https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/130176837049748275... What if he had ended this tweet with "But: I will take any FDA approved vaccine." ? Except - he was at exactly 280 characters, so he couldn't have added this without removing other text, or doing a multi-tweet message. https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/69/4/345/5547032?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/69/4/345/55470... says "We show that doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions online." Maybe the character limits inherent in platforms like twitter cause many of the problems we're seeing right now, because people literally don't have the words to explain themselves.