The phenomenon also holds that a group's attitude toward a situation may change in the sense that the individuals' initial attitudes have strengthened and intensified after group discussion, a phenomenon …

Political polarization (spelt polarisation in British English, Australian English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes. [1][2][3] …

According to psychology professors Gordon Heltzel and Kristin Laurin, political polarization occurs when "subsets of a population adopt increasingly dissimilar attitudes toward parties and party members …

Two children at a playground talking and demonstrating a positive attitude In psychology, an attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought. An attitude object can be anything a person …

Polarization (physics), the ability of waves to oscillate in more than one direction; polarization of light allows the glare-reducing effect of polarized sunglasses

It has been claimed to be the cause of severe polarization in American politics. [3] It has also been studied in the Canadian context, [4] as well as in Australia and New Zealand. [5]

With media influence carrying into adolescence, high school students attribute the information that forms their opinions and attitudes about race, war, economics, and patriotism to mass media much more …

However, he contends that Klein's views on intense polarization, while applying well to elites, may overstate polarization among the broader American public. He states: "There is definitely a 'we' that …

Self-Generated attitude change (attitude polarization). This research [3] suggests that simply thinking about an attitude object, even with no new information or change in circumstances, can result in …

Attitude polarization, from what I learned, is the tendency to perceive a viewpoint opposing one's own as more extreme than it really is. For example: say I don't agree with capital punishment.