ReviewCommunications psychology2024
Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement.
Review in Communications psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Agreeing to disagree: When do superordinate identities facilitate competing opinion-based groups to work through intergroup conflict?The British journal of social psychology · 2026Article
- Rating our certainty: how confidence judgments amplify belief polarization.Psychological research · 2026Article
- A primer on politicization, polarization, radicalization, and activation and their implications for democracy in times of rapid technological change.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- Finding polarized communities and tracking information diffusion on Twitter: a network approach on the Irish Abortion Referendum.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Dynamics of temporal influence in polarised networks.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
The term polarization is used to describe both the division of a society into opposing groups (political polarization), and a social psychological phenomenon (group polarization) whereby people adopt more extreme positions after discussion. We explain how group polarization underpins the political polarization phenomenon: Social interaction, for example through social media, enables groups to form in such a way that their beliefs about what should be done to change the world-and how this differs from the stance of other groups-become integrated as aspects of a new, shared social identity. This provides a basis for mobilization to collective action.
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