Nat Kendall-Taylor

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Marketplace All-in-One · What do American families really care about right now? · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Yeah, so I'm glad that I'm the third person to go here because the work that I do is not public opinion research.

The work that we do at the Frameworks Institute really focuses a couple of levels underneath public opinion, underneath the things that people say when they're asked to complete an opinion poll.

So we work on

what are called mindsets.

So the deep implicit understandings that shape how people think, feel, and act on social issues.

And so mindset research is really helpful in helping us understand exactly kind of why we're seeing the trends that we're seeing that Brian and Celinda just talked about.

So in our work, we consistently and predictably see people evoke, see people use three kind of dominant mindsets in the way that they think about

issues of children and families, but also issues of immigration and education and healthcare.

So I'm going to take just a minute to tell you what those three mindsets are.

First of all, individualism, right?

The sense that the world is the way that it is, that outcomes are the way that they are is an exclusive result of how hard people try.

People are nodding their heads.

And the idea is not that these mindsets, well, the third one is wrong, but not that these mindsets are right or wrong.

Like we know individualism shapes how issues work,

But if that's the dominant mindset that we're thinking about economic issues or childcare, then there's a whole bunch of things that we all work on in this room that drop out of you, right?

Systems, policies, institutions, relationships, neighborhoods, all cease to be important as people's attention is trained on the almighty power of those bootstraps.

Second, fatalism, which we've seen grow pretty significantly over the last five years in particular.

This is the sense that the world is just too messed up.

The problems are too everywhere, dire and on fire to do anything about.

And therefore, when presented with yet another one of them, the child mental health crisis, we don't lean in and engage.

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