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The psychology behind our political divide, with Keith Payne, PhD

The psychology behind our political divide, with Keith Payne, PhD

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The U.S. feels more polarized than ever, and with election day around the corner, many of us are feeling the strain of political divisions among our friends, family members and loved ones. Keith Payne, PhD, author of “Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America’s Dangerous Divide,” discusses the psychology that underlies how most people think about politics, how U.S. history has led us to where we are, whether polarization is really worse than it used to be, and what, if anything, we can we do to bridge the divide.

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The psychology behind our political divide, with Keith Payne, PhD

The psychology behind our political divide, with Keith Payne, PhD

American Psychological Association