Two Honors College Fellows made a video on political polarization which exceled in Science megastudy
Michael Pasek and Rebecca Littman of the UIC Department of Psychology. (Photos: Estelle Winkleman/Tikia Travis)
Honors Fellows Michael Pasek and Rebecca Littman of the UIC Department of Psychology co-created the video, which they entered into Stanford University’s Strengthening Democracy Challenge. It emphasizes how Democrats and Republicans hold inaccurate beliefs about how their political opponents view them.
In 2022, the competition chose the team’s video as a finalist from over 250 submissions, then tested it and 24 other finalist submissions to see which reduced partisan animosity, anti-democratic attitudes and support for political violence. The UIC video was one of only five that reduced all three target outcomes. The megastudy surveyed more than 32,000 people.
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Read the full UIC Today article and links to watch the video here
Modified on October 29, 2024