Let’s get the psychology of debate right

In the last few weeks, manySingaporeans have been exercised over the lengthy debate that ensued between anacademic and a government minister during a parliamentary committee hearing. Singaporean historian Thum Ping Tjinhad made a written submission to the Select Committee on Deliberate OnlineFalseho...

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Main Author: CHAN, David
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-46462021-09-30T02:23:06Z Let’s get the psychology of debate right CHAN, David In the last few weeks, manySingaporeans have been exercised over the lengthy debate that ensued between anacademic and a government minister during a parliamentary committee hearing. Singaporean historian Thum Ping Tjinhad made a written submission to the Select Committee on Deliberate OnlineFalsehoods in which he asserted that the biggest purveyor of fake news inSingapore was the Government, in particular the late founding prime ministerLee Kuan Yew. When he appeared before it to flesh out hissubmission, he was questioned for over six hours by Home Affairs and LawMinister K. Shanmugam, a member of the committee, over his interpretation ofhistorical events such as the 1963 Operation Coldstore exercise. 2018-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3389 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4646/viewcontent/PsychologyDebate_ChanD_2018AprST.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Public debate fake news academics government Singapore Asian Studies Psychology Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
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Singapore
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topic Public debate
fake news
academics
government
Singapore
Asian Studies
Psychology
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
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fake news
academics
government
Singapore
Asian Studies
Psychology
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
CHAN, David
Let’s get the psychology of debate right
description In the last few weeks, manySingaporeans have been exercised over the lengthy debate that ensued between anacademic and a government minister during a parliamentary committee hearing. Singaporean historian Thum Ping Tjinhad made a written submission to the Select Committee on Deliberate OnlineFalsehoods in which he asserted that the biggest purveyor of fake news inSingapore was the Government, in particular the late founding prime ministerLee Kuan Yew. When he appeared before it to flesh out hissubmission, he was questioned for over six hours by Home Affairs and LawMinister K. Shanmugam, a member of the committee, over his interpretation ofhistorical events such as the 1963 Operation Coldstore exercise.
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3389
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