ArticleThe American psychologist2022
The polarized mind in context: Interdisciplinary approaches to the psychology of political polarization.
Article in The American psychologist, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Moral trade-offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- A social inference model of idealization and devaluation.Psychological review · 2024Article
- Shared neural representations and temporal segmentation of political content predict ideological similarity.Science advances · 2023Article
- Cognitive-motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts.Nature reviews psychology · 2022Review
- A Framework on Polarization, Cognitive Inflexibility, and Rigid Cognitive Specialization.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty modulates brain-to-brain synchrony during politically polarized perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Existing research into the psychological roots of political polarization centers around two main approaches: one studying cognitive traits that predict susceptibility to holding polarized beliefs and one studying contextual influences that spread and reinforce polarized attitudes. Although both accounts have made valuable progress, political polarization is neither a purely cognitive trait nor a contextual issue. We argue that a new approach aiming to uncover interactions between cognition and context will be fruitful for understanding how polarization arises. Furthermore, recent developments in neuroimaging methods can overcome long-standing issues of measurement and ecological validity to critically help identify in which psychological processing steps-e.g., attention, semantic understanding, emotion-polarization takes hold. This interdisciplinary research agenda can thereby provide new avenues for interventions against the political polarization that plagues democracies around the world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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