beSpacific<p>Our <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> tend be more emotional now. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policy</span></a> preferences R increasingly likely to b entangled w a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/visceral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visceral</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dislike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dislike</span></a> of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opposition</span></a>. The newly embraced <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> term for this is “affective polarization.” “It’s feelings based,” said Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at JHU, author of “Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.” “It’s# polarization that’s based on our feelings for each other, not based on extremely divergent policy preferences.” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/01/20/polarization-science-evolution-psychology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/science/202</span><span class="invisible">4/01/20/polarization-science-evolution-psychology/</span></a></p>