Dehumanization: Trends, insights, and challenges

NS Kteily, AP Landry - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Despite our many differences, one superordinate category we all belong to is 'humans'. To
strip away or overlook others' humanity, then, is to mark them as 'other'and, typically,'less …

Interventions to reduce partisan animosity

R Hartman, W Blakey, J Womick, C Bail… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Rising partisan animosity is associated with a reduction in support for democracy and an
increase in support for political violence. Here we provide a multi-level review of …

How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks

WJ Brady, K McLoughlin, TN Doan, MJ Crockett - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Moral outrage shapes fundamental aspects of social life and is now widespread in online
social networks. Here, we show how social learning processes amplify online moral outrage …

Correcting inaccurate metaperceptions reduces Americans' support for partisan violence

JS Mernyk, SL Pink, JN Druckman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Scholars, policy makers, and the general public have expressed growing concern about the
possibility of large-scale political violence in the United States. Prior research substantiates …

Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election

G Pennycook, DG Rand - The Harvard Kennedy School …, 2021 - dash.harvard.edu
The 2020 US Presidential Election saw an unprecedented number of false claims alleging
election fraud and arguing that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the election. Here we …

[图书][B] We need to talk: How cross-party dialogue reduces affective polarization

MS Levendusky, DA Stecula - 2021 - cambridge.org
Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

The general fault in our fault lines

K Ruggeri, B Većkalov, L Bojanić, TL Andersen… - Nature Human …, 2021 - nature.com
Pervading global narratives suggest that political polarization is increasing, yet the accuracy
of such group meta-perceptions has been drawn into question. A recent US study suggests …

Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes

JG Voelkel, J Chu, MN Stagnaro, JS Mernyk… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
There is widespread concern that rising affective polarization—particularly dislike for
outpartisans—exacerbates Americans' anti-democratic attitudes. Accordingly, scholars and …

(Mis) estimating affective polarization

JN Druckman, S Klar, Y Krupnikov… - The Journal of …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Affective polarization—the tendency of ordinary partisans to dislike and distrust those from
the other party—is a defining feature of contemporary American politics. High levels of out …

Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform

A Combs, G Tierney, B Guay, F Merhout… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
Do anonymous online conversations between people with different political views
exacerbate or mitigate partisan polarization? We created a mobile chat platform to study the …