Want to influence people and make them feel greater empathy -- just slow down their responses by getting them to struggle a little with the manner in which they receive information. That's the finding of researchers at the University of Illinois. Liberals and conservatives who don't see eye to eye seem to mellow down while reading arguments in a difficult-to-read font suggests the new finding. Similarly people with a bias for or against a defendant in a mock trial are less likely to act on the bias if they have to struggle to read the evidence against him says Jesse Preston
