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Prof. Anders Levermann, PhD

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Trusting your own conviction makes it more likely that you stick to it, but it also increases polarization in society.

The "opinion spread" (=polarization in society) increases with increasing alignment of people's decision with their conviction. (model results)
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Bettina Knuelle's avatar Bettina Knuelle @bedoky.bsky.social
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This is very interesting! Thanks for sharing ♥️ As the technical terminology might not be easy to understand for non-experts, is there any chance that you will explain the model somewhere in an easier to grasp way? I love podcasts by the way … 😉

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