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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

VIDEO LINKS

Save the Country, The Fifth Dimension, https://youtu.be/pTuwAo5sUik
Thomas Carothers and Andres O’Donohue on Democracies Divided, https://youtu.be/V7naQvsdhMk
Jane Mansbridge, 3 Causes of Polarization, https://youtu.be/3kU1-D3rktI
Jonathan Haidt, How Social Media Drives Polarization, https://youtu.be/G9ofYEfewNE
NYU School of Law, The Forum: The Moral Psychology of Political Polarization: Many Causes and a Few Possible Responses, https://youtu.be/1OnTTWkAv_E
The Problem of Polarization, Professor Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University, https://youtu.be/CSExVYB2b-M
Stephen McIntosh, How to Overcome Polarization in Five Minutes, https://youtu.be/qvz96-0EDdU
Jake Teeny, The Open Secret About Political Polarization, https://youtu.be/X_QeeSXF8vM
Adam Kashlak, Thinking Statistically in a Polarized World, https://youtu.be/2kduZsiVtK0
Davin Alhany, How We Explain Judgement and Polarization Through Schemas, https://youtu.be/UcP9kIiZeII

Hannah Holmes, Red brain, blue brain -- the neurobiology of political values, https://youtu.be/m5PgVKO3TWw
Network for Responsible Public Policy, Polarization Past and Present: What’s Changed? What’s Possible? https://youtu.be/CyrX9JBtE44
What Are We Afraid Of? Societal Fears Reflected in Film, https://youtu.be/1sYHfYYiyYw
Humanity's Deepest, Darkest Fear, https://youtu.be/cA_-x9TYyUE
The Science of Racism, https://youtu.be/o8GoIfvnurY
How 2 Political Opposites Became Conversation Partners, https://youtu.be/xXSqJKBfHeU
What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner https://youtu.be/C-bcjsXkG1Q
Kris De Meyer, The genie of polarization - how can we get it back in the bottle? https://youtu.be/p8O4AwNecBU
John Hibbing, Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, 2014 https://youtu.be/1uq-kxDrZYU
Rose McDermott, The Genetics of Politics, https://youtu.be/mVVeCOuh7FQ
Elisabeth Wehling, Political Morality in Your Brain, https://youtu.be/ju6jHCKI0jg

LINKS TO PUBLISHED REPORTS AND ARTICLES

Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Míriam Juan-Torres, Tim Dixon, Hidden Tribes: a Study of America’s Polarized Landscape (More In Common 2018) https://hiddentribes.us/media/qfpekz4g/hidden_tribes_report.pdf .
The Perception Gap: How False Impressions are Pulling Americans Apart (More in Common June 2019) https://perceptiongap.us/ .
The Arizona We Want: The Decade Ahead, Center for the Future of Arizona, 2021. https://www.arizonafuture.org/media/unfojhmh/cfa_arizona_we_want_the_decade_ahead_digital.pdf
David French, How False Beliefs Propel Cultural Conflict, The Atlantic, December 09, 2022, https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/639385a7b9e06100378c0e1e/democrat-republican-political-beliefs-culture/
Jonathan Haidt, Why The Past 10 Years of America Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, The Atlantic, May 2022, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/#:~:text=WHY%20THE%20PAST% 2010%20YEARS%20OF%20AMERICAN%20LIFE%20HAVE%20
BEEN%20UNIQUELY%20STUPID
Derek Thompson, Click Here If You Want to Be Sad, The Atlantic, March 2023 https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/negativity-bias-online-news-consumption/673499/
Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, Understanding and Addressing Contemporary Racism: From Aversive Racism to the Common Ingroup Identity Model, Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2005, pp. 615—639.
What is Otherness? –The Other Sociologist https://othersociologist.com/otherness-resources/
Cognitive Biases, Wickipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Global configuration of cognitive biases. https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/g7dwarfs.php#glob
John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner, Reducing Prejudice: Combating Intergroup Biases, Current Directions In Psychological Science, Volume 8, Number 4, August 1999
We need political parties. But their rabid partisanship could destroy American democracy.We’re trapped in a frightening “doom loop” of mutual distrust. By Lee Drutman Sep 5, 2017, 8:20am EDT https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/5/16227700/hyperpartisanship-identity-american-democracy-problems-solutions-doom-loop
George Packer, The Four Americas, How America Fractured Into Four Parts, The Atlantic, July/August 2021 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/
Emily Laber-Warren, Unconscious Reactions Separate Liberals and Conservatives, Scientific American, September 1, 2012 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/
Thomas P. Miller, University of Arizona, Why Are Liberals so Narrow Minded, https://tmiller.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/tmiller.faculty.arizona.edu/files/Why%20Are%20Liberals%20So%20Narrow%20handout%207-31.pdf
Dan M. Kahan, Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth, Scientific American, December 3, 2018. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-smart-people-are-vulnerable-to-putting-tribe-before-truth/
Kirk Waldorf, Healing the political divide. How did we become such a divided nation, and how can psychologists help us bridge the gap? Monitor on Psychology Vol. 52 No. 1 (January 1, 2021) https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/01/healing-political-divide
Arthur C. Brooks, Our Culture of Contempt, New York Times, March 2, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html
Shai Davidai and Martino Ongis, The politics of zero-sum thinking: The relationship between political ideology and the belief that life is a zero-sum game, Science Advances Vol 5, Issue 12, 18 Dec 2019

Natalia Holliday, America in the Grip of Groupthink, Juris Magazine, January 8, 2019 https://sites.law.duq.edu/juris/2019/01/08/america-in-the-grip-of-groupthink/
Peter Wehner, Why Civility is a Democratic Virtue, Commentary, August 3, 2015 https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/conservatives-republicans/civility-in-politics/
George Lakoff, An excerpt from Moral Politics, How Liberals and Conservatives Think, July 23, 2018 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/467716.html
William Voegli, Left, Right, and Human, CRB, Vol. XIV, No. 4, Fall, 2014, https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/left-right-and-human/
Amanda Ripley, Complicating the Narratives – The Whole Story, Solutions Journalism Network, July 24, 2018 https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/complicating-the-narratives-b91ea06ddf63
Carlos Lozada, The United Hates of America, The Washington Post, October 30, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/30/polarization-books-trump-election/
Chauncey DeVega, Doomsday? Nearly half of "strong Republicans" believe it's almost time for armed violence, Salon, July 27, 2022 https://www.salon.com/2022/07/27/doomsday-nearly-half-of-strong-republicans-believe-its-almost-time-for-armed-violence/
Troy Campbell, Justin Friesen, Why People “Fly From Facts”, Scientific American, March 3, 2015 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-fly-from-facts/
Joel A. Brown, The Struggle Is Real: Understanding the American “Culture War”, Religion & Culture Forum, July, 2017 https://voices.uchicago.edu/religionculture/2017/07/11/the-struggle-is-real-understanding-the-american-culture-war-by-russell-d/?fbclid=IwAR09N…
Matthew Speiser, the 11 Nations of the United States, Business Insider, July 27, 2015 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7
Will Wilkensen, The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization, and Populist Backlash, Niskanen Center, June 2019 https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-density-divide-urbanization-polarization-and-populist-backlash/
Meryl Davids Landau, To Overcome Unconscious Bias, You Must Recognize That It’s Deeply Ingrained in Your Brain, Prevention, February 2021.
Jill Suttie, Can Contact Reduce Prejudice Even When You're In Conflict?, Common Good Newsletter, July 17, 2023, Can Contact Reduce Prejudice
Bill Donahue, This Rural Liberal Set Out to Talk to His Pro-Trump Neighbors, The Washington Post February 24, 2021
Peter N. Limberg and Conor Barnes, The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 – World Wide WTF, Medium, September 13, 2018, https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
Daniel Yudkin, How political tribalism can be explained using social science, The Guardian, March 27, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/mar/27/how-social-science-can-help-us-understand-moral-tribalism-in-politics
Jill Suttie, Just Thinking About Cooperation Can Make You Less Prejudiced, Common Good Newsletter, April 20, 2021, Just Thinking About Cooperation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay3761
https://thetylt.com/politics/date-someone-different-political-party
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/12/19/far-more-americans-say-there-are-strong-conflicts-between-partisans-than-between-other-groups-in-society/
https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/political-polarization/

BOOKS

Nolan McCarty, Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press (July 8, 2019).
Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized, Avid Reader Press (June 15, 2021).
Piercarlo Valdesolo (Editor), Jesse Graham (Editor), Social Psychology of Political Polarization (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series) 1st Edition (February 17, 2016).
Peter T. Coleman, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization, Columbia University Press (June 1, 2021)
Steven L. Yaffee, Beyond Polarization (June 2020)
Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue, editors, Democracies Divided, Brookings Institution Press, (September 24, 2019).
John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford, Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, And The Biology of Political Differences, Routledge (2014).
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Pantheon (2012)

Amanda Montell, Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk)
Kevin Dutton, Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World
Cass Sunstein, This Is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations

WEBSITES

League of Women Voters Durham North Carolina https://my.lwv.org/north-carolina/orange-durham-and-chatham-counties-inc/action-and-advocacy/civil-discourse-resources

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