"Most people on average do this," study co-author Angus Fletcher, a professor of English at Ohio State University, tells Fortune.
"People are willing to change their minds," Fletcher noted, as participants shifted their thoughts after being presented with the rest of the argument.
He calls this phenomenon the 'illusion of information adequacy,' where people rarely pause to think about what info they might be missing.
Fletcher thinks the study's findings can be helpful in everyday disagreements—big and small—in encouraging curiosity about all sides of an argument.
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