Liberal and Conservative Illusions

NYU News: Liberals tend to underestimate the amount of actual agreement among those who share their ideology, while conservatives [and moderates] tend to overestimate intra-group agreement, researchers in New York University’s Department of Psychology have found. These findings, which appear in the journal Psychological Science, may help to explain differences in how political groups and movements, like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, gain traction on the national stage. “The Tea Party movement developed a succinct set of goals...
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