A talk with Dr. Jaime Settle, a political scientist who has studied how social media may be increasing political animosity and division. She's the author of "Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America," which describes her research showing how Facebook seems to increase people's animosity towards members of the opposite political party. Topics discusssed include: inherent aspects of internet communication that likely increase polarization, apart from product feature choices; the pathway of how Facebook users (and other social media users) become more aware of others’ political views and more judgmental of them; the darker psychological tendencies activated by social media; the role of the out-group homogeneity effect; things we can all do to reduce political animosity. Learn more about the show and get transcripts at⁠ ⁠behavior-podcast.com⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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