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Norbert_R 🧣🐘🦣

#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1038 - May 31 2025

Quickie with Steve: #GlobalWarming and Ocean #Currents; News Items: #Infrared #ContactLenses, #Trees Respond to Solar #Eclipse, Affective #Polarization, The Brain's #Motor_Switchboard, New Dwarf #Planet Candidate; Discussion: The Effect of #ScienceFiction; Your Questions and E-mails: HHS Cancels Vaccine Contract; #Science or Fiction

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The Skeptics Guide to the Universe | Weekly science podcast produced by the SGU Productions llc. Also provides blogs, forums, videos and resources. · The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

**Narcissism and Affective Polarization**

“_We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship._”

Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav 47, 599–618 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-099.

SpringerLinkNarcissism and Affective Polarization - Political BehaviorThere are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and ideological sorting, we ask whether people’s personalities are associated with friendliness to their political in-group and hostility to their political out-group. We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship. This potentially not only explains why some people are more susceptible to affective polarization, but also has implications for elite polarization given that narcissism is an important predictor of elite entry.
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Wesley Fryer

(2/3) #book2read: Everything Must Go: THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD by Dorian Lynskey
a.co/d/29PCRaa

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet
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via “Prepping For Doomsday” [PODCAST] #DemocracyWorks
pca.st/episode/f478fb44-d052-4

Jeff Sharlet’s SubStack is:
slowcivilwar.substack.com/

#WarChurch #CommPrep #prepper #fascism #polarization #WhiteSupremacy

Please join me on Patreon and Substack if these are topics of

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RDN

Analysis of language used in U.S. congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022, focusing on use of words taken to represent use of either evidence or intuition, found that intuition-signifying words became increasingly prominent since the 1970s, and this change was reflected in increasing political polarization.

Summary: sciencefocus.com/news/scientis

Original paper: nature.com/articles/s41562-025

Four graphs from the paper (Figure 1), showing temporal changes in a) the Evidence-Minus-Intuition (EMI) score, b) political polarization of both major parties, c) number of public laws passed, and d) uncertainty in the relationship between EMI and the number of public laws passed. In the first graph, EMI shows a gradual increase from 1940 to 1970, followed by a steep decline. Political polarization shows the same trends.
#Science#Language#Politics
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Den Spier :europe:

@glynmoody The times we’re living in - everything, absolutely everything, is being politicized, even simple machines such as heat pumps! Refrigerators next?

I am convinced this polarization of everything trend started with and is driven by algorithms on social media and how we are leveraging them. It’s the greatest experiment in human history, and we are all lab rats l. It’s not going well for us.
#polarization #politicization

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization. “It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps. That’s largely a result of these platforms’ design, as the algorithms driving them direct users to like-minded peers. This […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/17/concordia-university-new-concordia-research-shows-social-networks-are-vulnerable-to-relatively-simple-ai-manipulation-and-polarization/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#AI#algorithmictimelines#echochambers
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Auscandoc

Diverse Social Identities Can Protect Against Misinformation | #Psychology Today Canada psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mi “If a lack of #networkdiversity increases biases, can greater #ideologicaldiversity reduce them? There is evidence that suggests it can. Research shows that people with more ideologically diverse networks tend to have less polarized beliefs, and meaningful discussions across differences can reduce #polarization. (1/3)

Psychology TodayDiverse Social Identities Can Protect Against MisinformationWhy are some people more resistant to misinformation? Complexity in who we are makes us more open to facts—and to each other.
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