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Jul 23, 2020 · How can we heal our country’s toxic polarization? Here are seven research-backed ideas for pundits, politicians, reporters and regular citizens to bring down the temperature. 1. Call out your own party. Humans are social creatures — we want to belong, and are highly attuned to popularity.
Jul 2, 2019 · When poorly implemented, referendums risk causing new fault lines along which polarization can manifest. When well implemented, referendums might cut across existing lines of polarization and help establish a new social norm that can move a country forward.
Apr 9, 2024 · Recent research suggests that ideological polarization often precedes and drives affective polarization, 1 but the triggers that turn intellectual differences into mutual distrust and animus have not yet been identified.
May 29, 2023 · Ideological Polarization? A second caveat to the polarization narrative is that there is little evidence that Canadians are becoming more extreme in their ideological beliefs. That is, the moderate middle still holds in Canada.
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- The Outsized Effects of Tolerance
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- Understanding Shocks: 9/11 vs. Covid-19
Our Attraction-Repulsion Model (ARM) is an agent-based model of opinion change. These types of models formalize assumptions about how individuals interact with one another and change their political ideologies, and then investigate the consequences of those assumptions. In Axelrod’s widely-researched culture model, for example, “agents” can adopt c...
Consistent with our democratic and pluralistic intuition, the ARM model shows that a society’s level of tolerance strongly influences the trajectory of polarization. Low tolerance among actors causes flurries of repulsive interactions and the rapid onset of extreme polarization, while moderate to high tolerance does the opposite. How, then, do we f...
Notions such as “we have more in common than we have differences” or “if you knew me better, you wouldn’t say the hateful things you say” appeal to mutual understanding as an antidote to intolerance. Under this view, we could cure national schisms by breaking out of our homogeneous neighborhoods and information echo chambers to learn from those who...
Unlike the agents in our model that are attracted and repulsed freely along the ideological spectrum, humans have social and cultural values that act as anchors to positions that, sometimes, serve their own interest. This is especially true when a person’s stake in a policy outcome is clear, such as a small business owner being more likely to oppos...
As the saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Is polarization mitigated—even temporarily—in the face of external shocks such as war, climate disasters, or economic crises? According to our model, it depends. Specifically, crises unite a population only if they occur before the onset of extreme polarization or if the effects of such cris...
Oct 14, 2024 · Our flagship program, Citizen Solutions, convenes people in individual states to create common-ground solutions to divisive issues across lines of difference. After inviting public feedback, the participants mobilize support and push lawmakers for legislation. So far, we’ve focused on gun rights and safety in Tennessee, and abortion access ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Some of the most effective methods are time consuming and require a lot of buy-in from participants, so researchers are developing easier interventions — such as watching Cox and Peterson’s joint...
