The partisan pandemic: Do we now live in alternative realities?
Friday, August 21, 2020 - 08:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Politics can divide even friends and families. When this happens, we like to tell ourselves that the explanation lies in honest differences in values and preferences. From this standpoint, friends from different political parties won't really disagree, for example, about the number of workers displaced in the pandemic, but they might differ on who should bear the costs. It's another matter, however, if political conflict results from differences in information or attachments to alternative realities.