CNN's John Sutter created an intervention based on the book The Power of Us. It was pitted against a number of other interventions and came in third out of 25. Heineken commercial from years ago showed liberals and conservatives sitting in a room talking about their political beliefs, then asked them if they'd like to have a beer with one another. "It turns out that was the best in reducing partisan animosity," Sutter says.
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.