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 …

Transformation of social relationships in COVID-19 America: Remote communication may amplify political echo chambers

B Lee, K Lee, B Hartmann - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of Americans compelled to stay home and work
remotely, presented an opportunity to explore the dynamics of social relationships in a …

A Threat to Cohesion: Intragroup Affective Polarization in the Context of Intractable Intergroup Conflict

TO Harel, N Nir, D Vandermeulen… - Journal of Conflict …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Growing affective polarization, or animosity between competing ideological groups,
threatens to tear apart democratic societies worldwide. In nations that are facing external …

Frozen discourse: how screenshots hinder depolarization on social media

T Orian Harel - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Social media is thought to play a pivotal role in increasing animosity between opposing
partisans, ie, affective polarization. This study focuses on one context that is assumed to …

Exposure to the views of opposing others with latent cognitive differences results in social influence—but only when those differences remain obscured

D Guilbeault, A van Loon, K Lix… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Cognitive differences can catalyze social learning through the process of one-to-one social
influence. Yet the learning benefits of exposure to the ideas of cognitively dissimilar others …

Escape from fraught states in a coordination game

W Tabor, G Smith, H Dankowicz - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Through a behavioural coordination game played by groups of humans and simulated with
agent-based models, we investigated a social network dilemma that we call fraughtness …

[PDF][PDF] Chinese-iranian relationships under the shadow of the us: limited Cooperation and limited abandonment (1979‒present)

MM Falarti - World, 2023 - academia.edu
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to maintain profound economic and political relations
with the People's Republic of China. In the interim since the 1970s China has not only …

How Social Upheaval Shaped DEI Hiring Practices: Evidence from over 21 Million Job Postings and Hires

A Mohliver, G Raines - Available at SSRN 4923070, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Polarization has surged in America, impacting society in unprecedented ways, from election
outcomes to protests on college campuses. Yet, many of its societal impacts remain …

Solidarity Effects in Digital Social Justice Movement: How Does National Identity Become Exclusionary by Movement Support from Foreign Nations?

T Suzuki, B Jung - Available at SSRN 4894151, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Digital social justice movements are more supported when solidarity messages are
expressed from the dominant group in a society. In recent years, foreign actors expressed …

[PDF][PDF] Polarization and Exposure to Counter-Attitudinal Media in a Nondemocracy

A Akbiyik, J Bowles, H Larreguy, S Liu - 2023 - povertyactionlab.org
Political polarization is an increasing global concern. Although recent research suggests
that media has the potential to mitigate polarization through persuasion, it is unclear whether …