In a new paper in Cognition w. @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social and @leede-wit.bsky.social, we explore perceived dependencies as a possible cause for issue polarisation.
We show that this is possible experimentally where high dependency depresses updating.
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A large literature debates whether belief polarization, in both experiments and real-world political opinion data, is the result of biased forms of re…
