Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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Social Identity Theory
We're guided by our identities, whether we know it or not. We will do things to promote our own side and denegrate the other side in all sorts of settings. If you drop me into a place where people are very different, ig very quickly become attuned to all the things that make us different,. like our brains are trained to focus on these contrasts. Andus: I'm superinterested in how much we think we're in control of what we think and believe - but also just how much it's determined by everything else.
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