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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media

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Are There Any Good Interventions to Reduce Political Demanization?

Personal experiences make people dehumanize their opponents less. And it's because personal experiences make them more tolerant of their opponents. The other avenue we've taken is focusing on perceptions of threat. People believe that those who disagree with them on cove 19 policie, so like whether or not we should keep things close or er a require social distancing, et cetera,. They believe that their opponents don't care about threat that they care about. This has down steran consequences. At makes us more likely to morally condemn them, more likely to dehumanize these people. Man, it's very hard to compromise and find ways as a society to work together if we're dehumanizing half half the

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