Broadening the perspective on the polarized mind: Commentary on van Baar and Feldmanhall (2022).

Schneider KJ

Am Psychol . 2022;77 (5) :710-711

📅 01/01/2022 PMID : 35878095 DOI : 10.1037/amp0001011

Résumé

The article "The Polarized Mind in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Psychology of Political Polarization" (van Baar & FeldmanHall, 2022) explores a crucial challenge to contemporary U.S. society. The article focuses on two aspects of the polarized mind: cognitive inflexibility and (exogenous) environmental factors, such as "media filter bubbles" and "biased social networks." However, there are also underlying existential-humanistic and psychodynamic factors that have been identified as elucidating the polarized mind. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).