Psychology Today17d
Can Love Survive Political Polarization?
There is a growing divide in opinions between men and women. However, emotional connection can be an antidote to polarization.
Business Insider2y
Social media polarized America by making a big mistake: It introduced us to each other.
It's what social scientists call affective polarization, as opposed to the more vanilla ideological version. "What my model bears out is the way this is completely arbitrary," Törnberg says.
Chronicle1y
How to Depolarize Political Toxicity on Social Media
The surveys measured various notions of ideological polarization (essentially measures of individual positions on specific issues) and affective polarization (measures of negative sentiment toward the ...
Phys.org25d
Study maps civic values, media use and affective polarization
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Individuals who primarily use social media for news tend to score lower on civic values compared to those who rely on newspapers and non-commercial media. The ...
Forbes2mon
Manu Meel
He believes that the biggest threat to American democracy is affective polarization. As CEO of BridgeUSA, Manu is currently building the largest and fastest growing student movement to bridge our ...
Queen Mary University of London1mon
Workshop: Polarization, Democratic Backsliding, and the Expanding Gap Between Democratic Expectations and Outcomes: Latin America and Beyond
Orhan (2021), in a large study of 50 countries, shows a significant correlation between affective polarization and democratic backsliding. Additionally, studies have shown that more polarized ...
Psychology Today17d
Can Love Survive Political Polarization?
Iyengar et al. show that much of political polarization today is driven by “affective polarization”: emotional reactions to opposing political groups, more than differences in policy positions.