Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention has been paid to polarization on other issue dimensions and the mass-elite ...
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This polarization is not just a political issue—it affects our day-to-day interactions with those around us. When we live in echo chambers, we become less empathetic toward those who think differently. A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Review found tha...
However, the constitutional amendment in the United States is very complicated and the process is lengthy. It is almost unlikely to ban guns through constitutional amendments. Second, political polarization in the United States has been serious in recent decades. The Democrats support gun control...
Group Polarization: Group polarization is a socio-psychological phenomenon first described by James Stoner in his graduate thesis. He discovered that after discussing an issue, the opinion of the average group members tends to sway toward the extreme side of the argument. ...
But not only did the pandemic worsen deep-seated issues such as mental health, homelessness, health care and political polarization, it has made people think differently about one another, Halpin told CTVNews.ca in an interview. This can manifest as an impatient customer, l...
enacting campaign finance or election reform to reduce polarization in government would likely degrade the quality of political representation. The authors note that they are not arguing that increasing polarization would necessarily improve representation. "Rather, the level of elite polarization simply im...
There is something inherently narcissistic in political candidates. There is the allure of being a prominent decision maker seeking praise and being lauded for your ideas but more insidiously, for your “self”. It is an ego-breeding process to have numerous subservient followers often going into ...
Data says political polarization is reaching a fever pitch. Not everything has to be partisan, though. Note what we said earlier about the fact that not everyone wants to hear about politics. This might also be the case for people that do follow you. A positive story “just because” can...
“the hidden vote”, decides to vote on election date, the re-weighting fails leading to inaccurate results. The issue is believed to be one of the major reasons for the generalized failure of pollsters to predict the triumph of Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, where groups ...