People hope that cross-partisan conversations can help ease affective polarization and promote a healthier democracy. However, a new study by University of California at Berkeley and Stanford scholars has found that simply getting Democrats and Republicans to talk to each other has scant power to bridge political divides.
The new study co-authored by UC Berkeley political scientist David Broockman and Stanford social psychology Ph.D. Student Erik Santoro was released in the journal Science Advances on June 22.
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