The Power of Us with Jay Van Bavel
The Behavioral Design Podcast
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Do You Stand Your Ground on Your Ideas?
The partisanship in the us has gotten so bad that even when people from both parties share set of beliefs, they can't actually do legislation around it because they don't want to be seen as co operating with them. And then the other thing, and i'll linked this to great work by jeff cohen, he found that a lot of times identity trumps ideology. So if you give people a policy position from a democrat, democrats will like it, or republicans will dislike it,. regardless of what the policy is. It becomes very hard to unwind it. You get all kinds of vicious cycles, right? Because once you get to that moment, and you can see
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