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Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life could help reduce political polarization

  • Written by Rebecca Dyer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hamilton College
Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life could help reduce political polarizationThinking about issues’ impact on their own lives can help people envision more common ground.wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Political polarization can be reduced when people are told to think about the personal relevance of issues they might not care about at first glance.

We, a social psychologist and an evolutionary psychologist,...

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