Emotional Fight or Flight Response

I am usually very open minded to knew ideas and beliefs that are presented to me, but there are times when I feel that I should speak up and point out when people are just blatantly wrong. This usually happens when I'm discussing sports with my friends, and I can't think of a specific instance because it tends to happen a lot. I'm very opinionated when it comes to sports topics that I feel I have a good background on because sports are my favorite topic to talk about. I was raised my parents to know when to speak up about things I care about and it just so happens to be sports. Whenever I get the opportunity to talk sports with people, I usually try to back up what I'm saying with facts and try to present them in a way that can be convincing to other people, similar to what was described by Mooney in our last article. There have been times where I've been wrong about a specific topic, and I usually just accept the fact that I'm wrong if it happens and try to use that knew found knowledge to use in another debate or conversation.