Science & Perspectives on Toxic Polarization

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  1. Civic Health Project & Listen First Project, 2025: Brief: Evidence that Bridging Works

  2. More in Common, 2025: The Connection Opportunity

  3. More in Common, 2025: Trump's Return: Five Findings that Capture the Moment

  4. Kubin, Emily, et al., 2024: Self-Disclosure Bridges Political Divides by Making Opponents Feel Connected

  5. TIME, 2024: The Growing Evidence That Americans Are Less Divided Than You May Think

  6. More in Common, 2024: Promising Revelations: Undoing the False Impressions of America’s Faithful

  7. MacPherson & Ripley, 2024: Countering Culture Wars and Political Conflict with Amanda Ripley

  8. Puryear et al., 2024: People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides

  9. Congressional Management Foundation, 2024: State of the Congress 2024

  10. The Washington Post, 2024:  Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized

  11. More in Common, 2023: Social Connection Across Difference in the US

  12. More in Common, 2023: The Power of A Simple Conversation: Our Partnership With StoryCorps

  13. Associated Press, 2023: Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds - AP

  14. ETH Zürich, 2023: Contact Theory with No Contact: Facilitating Dialogue Online

  15. TIME, 2023: Americans Are Tired of Political Division. Here’s How to Bridge It (3-part series)

  16. More in Common, 2023: SOTU 2023: Speaking to the Exhausted Majority

  17. Lee, Amber Hye-Yon, 2022: Social Trust in Polarized Times: How Perceptions of Political Polarization Affect Americans’ Trust in Each Other

  18. More in Common, 2022: Fourth of July in America

  19. Binnquist et al., 2022: The Zoom solution: Promoting effective cross-ideological communication online

  20. Voelkel et al., 2022: Megastudy identifying successful interventions to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes

  21. Santoro & Broockman, 2022: The promise and pitfalls of cross-partisan conversations for reducing affective polarization: Evidence

    from randomized experiments

  22. YouGov, 2022: Trust in Media 2022: Where Americans get their news and who they trust for information

  23. Kaufmann, 2022: Cancel Culture Is More Important, and Less Important, Than You Think

  24. Westwood, et al., 2022: Current Research Overstates American Support for Political Violence

  25. Hartman et al., 2022: Interventions to Reduce Partisan Animosity

  26. Broockman, et al., 2022: Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not

  27. Pew, 2021: America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide

  28. Brown & Enos, 2021: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters

  29. Abramowitz, 2021: Peak Polarization? The Rise of Partisan-Ideological Consistency and its Consequences

  30. Lees & Cikara, 2021: Understanding and combating misperceived polarization

  31. Weber et al., 2021: Political Polarization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Hope for Consumer Welfare, Marketers, and Public Policy

  32. Pippenger, 2021: Listening to Strangers, or: Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity

  33. Baldassarri & Page, 2021: The emergence and perils of polarization

  34. Stryker et al., 2021: Replication Note: What Is Political Incivility?

  35. Baron et al., 2021: Can Americans Depolarize? Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization

  36. Binnquist et al., 2021: The Zoom solution: Promoting effective cross-ideological communication online

  37. Brookings Institute, 2021: Ways to Reconcile and Heal America

  38. Druckman & Levy, 2021: Affective Polarization in the American Public

  39. Kalla & Broockman, 2021: Voter outreach campaigns can reduce affective polarization among implementing political activists

  40. More in Common, 2021: Two Stories of Distrust in America

  41. Newsweek, 2021: Biden Must Mobilize Americans to Fight "Toxic Polarization"

  42. New York Time, 2021: Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy

  43. New York Times, 2021: How Much Does How Much We Hate Each Other Matter?

  44. One America Movement, 2021: The Science of Polarization

  45. PNAS, 2021: Modeling the power of polarization

  46. Politico, 2021: How Biden Can Unify America - What six divided societies tell us about what the president needs to do now

  47. Ruggeri et al., 2021: The general fault in our fault lines

  48. Santoro et al., 2021: The short-term, circumscribed, and conditional effects of cross-partisan conversation

  49. Tornberg et al., 2021: Modeling the emergence of affective polarization in the social media society

  50. USA Today, 2021: Toxic polarization threatens our nation's future. Here's how we can save it

  51. Westwood et al., 2021: American Support for Political Violence is Low

  52. Eveland et al., 2020: Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations

  53. Beyond Conflict, 2020: America's Divided Mind

  54. Brown University, 2020: U.S. is polarizing faster than other democracies, study finds

  55. Carnegie, 2020: 7 Ideas to Reduce Political Polarization. And Save America from Itself

  56. Civic Health Project, 2020: Depolarizing America: Promising Paths Forward

  57. Diamond et al., 2020: Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins

  58. Druckman et al., 2020: Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America

  59. Finkel et al., 2020: Political Sectarianism in America: a poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization.

  60. FiveThirtyEight, 2020: How Hatred Came To Dominate American Politics

  61. Greater Good Science Center, 2020: Bridging Differences Playbook

  62. More in Common, 2020: American Fabric: Identity and Belonging

  63. OpenMind, 2020: Interactive Guide to Navigating Difficult Conversations

  64. Washington Post, 2020: Our divided times are an opportunity for empathy. Really.

  65. More In Common, 2019: The Perception Gap: How False Impressions are Pulling Americans Apart

  66. Druckman & Levendusky, 2019: What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?

  67. Greater Good Science Center, 2019: What Are the Solutions to Political Polarization?

  68. Kalmoe & Mason, 2019: Lethal Mass Partisanship

  69. National Affairs, 2019: Rethinking Polarization

  70. New York Times, 2019: No Hate Left Behind

  71. McCoy & Somer, 2018: Toward a Theory of Pernicious Polarization and How It Harms Democracies: Comparative Evidence and Possible Remedies

  72. Iyengar et al., 2018: The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

  73. Listen First Project, 2018: Field Playbook on Engaging Conservatives in the Bridging Movement

  74. Steffel et al., 2018: Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective

  75. Levendusky, 2017: Americans, Not Partisans: Can Priming American National Identity Reduce Affective Polarization?

  76. Iyengar et al., 2015: Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization

  77. Iyengar et al., 2012: Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization

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