Auscandoc<p>“Shanto Iyengar, a Stanford political psychologist who coined the term “<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/AffectivePolarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AffectivePolarization</span></a>,” explained in a 2018 paper why people typically identify with a group.</p><p>“Homo sapiens is a social species; group affiliation is essential to our sense of self. Individuals instinctively think of themselves as representing broad <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/socioeconomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socioeconomic</span></a> and <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cultural</span></a> categories rather than as distinctive packages of traits,” he wrote.” <a href="https://newsie.social/@GaryRLundberg/111789986952936649" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsie.social/@GaryRLundberg/1</span><span class="invisible">11789986952936649</span></a></p>