Is there anything we can actually do about polarization?
An Emotions Beat episode about why we hate the other side — and what that hate does to us. A week before the election, Yowei talks with social psychologist Jay Van Bavel about political sectarianism: the emotional force that turns political disagreement into disgust, fear, and moral certainty that the other side is…
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