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false polarization: a standalone construct

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Political psychology

overestimating how far apart opposing sides' views are, especially the other side's extremity.

In political psychology, false polarization refers to overestimating how far apart opposing sides' views are, especially the other side's extremity. This meaning comes from Robinson (1995) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Robinson, R. J., Keltner, D., Ward, A., & Ross, L. (1995). Actual versus assumed differences in construal: "Naive realism" in intergroup perception and conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(3), 404-417. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.404

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