Bill Ballas explores how unconscious bias, emotion, identity, fear, group belonging, and our digital environment shape the way we see politics.
Through political psychology, cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, tribalism, and mindfulness, this episode invites us to better understand why people get stuck in certain worldviews — and how self-awareness can help us relate to politics, ourselves, and each other with more honesty and clarity.
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