What Underlies Political Polarization? A Manifesto for Computational Political Psychology

Publication date: Available online 15 August 2019Source: Trends in Cognitive SciencesAuthor(s): Max Rollwage, Leor Zmigrod, Lee de-Wit, Raymond J. Dolan, Stephen M. FlemingPolarization is one of the biggest societal challenges of our time, yet its drivers are poorly understood. Here we propose a novel approach – computational political psychology – which uses behavioral tasks in combination with formal computational models to identify candidate cognitive processes underpinning susceptibility to polarized beliefs about political and societal issues.

Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - August 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research