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Disagreements are a fact of life, whether you’re online or off it. But it’s a fact universally acknowledged that arguments are frequently more entrenched on the Internet.

Luckily, for the commenters and Facebook-feuders of the web, a new study from researchers at Cornell suggests that there are some specific techniques you can use to win arguments online. (Short of never engaging at all, of course, which is a victory of its own kind).

The study, which will be presented in April at the International World Wide Web Conference, analyzed 18,000 threads in the subreddit r/changemyview over a...