When emotionally aroused, the human mind focuses so intensely on the object in question that all dissenting information is devalued and excluded.
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Can the metaphor of a properly functioning bicameral mind help diminish polarization and make politics and diplomacy more effective?
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Can our life experiences and their impact on our emotions and temperament, unbeknownst to us, affect our political outlook?
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Having a strong political opinion and cheering for a leader may both feel virtuous, but they may also represent error and misjudgement, if unexamined.
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The rigid polarization we see today in politics is a reflection of a win/lose style of thinking that has to change if societies are to thrive.
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Political parties are formulas to bind groups together towards an objective, but they are also exercises in static and fixed thinking.
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As the political temperature rises across the world, John Bell, Ivan Tyrrell and John Zada explain why they founded The Conciliators Guild, and their hopes for it.
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American Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt overturns our assumptions that our political beliefs are the result of logic and informed conscious choice.
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