🚨New Pub Alert!🚨 Self-disclosure is a key ingredient for bridging divides between opponents. Importantly, self-disclosure is not only useful when sharing experiences but also can be leveraged to heal divisions when communicating facts. More below 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

NEW PAPER: The emerging “Abundance movement” isn’t left, right, or center—it’s a cross-cutting idea. Here are six different camps emerging across the political spectrum. 👇

If anyone can teach us the irl consequences of cancel culture, it's Lydia Laurenson You may know her as a famous blogger, sex-positive feminist, publisher, speaker—or the ex-fiancé of a right-wing neoreactionary For the season finale of The Ick, her essay brings down the house

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions ft.com/content/925150… via John Burn-Murdoch

People love forcing their will on others until the eventual day they find themselves in disagreement with the mob they helped create.

Here’s the full address just delivered by Utah’s Governor Cox . It is, quite honestly, one of the most powerful speeches I’ve ever heard from a politician, or anyone, for that matter. Please sit down for 10 minutes and listen. You won’t regret it, I promise.

Selective empathy risks selective dehumanization.

It is great, and not at all surprising, to see Governor Cox stepping up in this moment to try to turn the temperature down and focus ppl on grieving the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk. For years, Governor Cox has promoted civility and grace across party lines. Our research finds

Lots vitriol online following Kirk's death. It's ugly. But how many people are actually supporting violence? Very few. Every take I've seen is based on anecdotes, so I collected the data.

People are fixated on the disgusting shit some too-online performatively left wing lunatics are saying about Kirk, but every normie liberal I’ve spoken to where I live, the most liberal city in the country, has expressed nothing but sadness at the news.

Not North vs South. Not Red vs Blue. It’s a 10-year trick that made neighbors fight. We’ll walk the timeline like a comic: who pushed what, how our brains got hacked, and how to beat it. Welcome to THE FAKE CIVIL WAR. Buckle up.

If they're doing everything in their power to destroy democracy, why talk with them? betterconflictbulletin.org/p/why-build-br…

We have measured support for partisan murder for the last 3 years. Following Kirk's assassination support dropped to ~*1%* from around 3% in the weeks before. True for Democrats, Republicans and even MAGA Republicans. Americans reject political violence.

People who handle conflict well are magnetic. You trust them immediately. You can say anything to them without fear they’ll get triggered, avoidant, or secretly combust from suppressed anger three months later. It’s wonderful. And you can be like this too.

The Mormons seem to be actually following the biblical conflict advice about loving your enemies. They could be an important “third side” in American politics. betterconflictbulletin.org/p/you-gotta-ha…

Honestly this is a terrific response to political repression. And there's a century of evidence to prove it.

What people believe about immigration, what the relevant facts are about economics, demographics and crime, who's pushing what narratives, what policies poll well, and what the humane ways out of this disaster might be. betterconflictbulletin.org/p/we-have-to-t…

There’s been a burst of debate around viewpoint diversity (an always controversial topic) in our pages and elsewhere. Will thread and describe the key arguments below…

The Portland Naked Bicycle Ride succeeded in shifting the media narrative from "violence" to "naked" for a week, even (especially) in right-leaning sources. betterconflictbulletin.org/p/the-strategi…

I believe that all evidence suggests we are witnessing the destruction of functioning government and basic rights. The most fundamental strategy is to expand the pro-freedom coalition by uniting “us” with “them” and taking non-violent action together. betterconflictbulletin.org/p/heres-my-pla…