Sentences with phrase «increased polarization»

At once angry and hopeful, the show emphasizes collectivity and community, mutual support and solidarity at a time of increased polarization, intolerance, xenophobia, and exclusion.

The authors note that many studies and measures indicate that Americans have become increasingly polarized in recent years, and that numerous researchers and commentators attribute increased polarization in part to the rise of social media and the internet.

There used to be people who preferred Democratic presidents and Republican representitives (or vice versa), but the increased polarization of politics has been decreasing the number of those.

The most important change for my work in the past 20 years is the increasing polarization between the modern right and left in both Protestantism and Catholicism, and the corresponding decline of a center rooted in premodern communal traditions.

/ Be aware of the feelings stirred up in each person by the dialogue, the power in each position, the energy consumed by the conflict, the increasing polarization that occurs.

The National Campmeeting Association fought hard for loyalty, but the influx of non-Methodists, an increasing radicalization of Holiness bodies, and an increasing polarization led ultimately to schism.

«In the near future, we may be able to accurately increase polarization by adding defect sites or reduce polarization by passivation of defects.»

In a recent Los Angeles Times article, writer Howard Blume reports on the increasing polarization of teachers» unions, charter schools and our current education system.

Second, we examine policy debates and key actors working in the education field, specifically the rise of student and teacher accountability, school choice, and the increasing polarization between Education Reformers and supporters of traditional public schools.

Just because they are correlated does not prove that increasing scientific literacy causes increasing polarization.

Several of these climate science - denying «opposing views» in USA Today were written by Republican members of Congress, exemplifying another point Mann and Toles make in the book: False balance is «greatly exacerbated by the increasing polarization of our public discourse.»

While it may temporarily look like its increasing the polarization to the climate scientists that are most centrally involved, until we air these issues and scientists and their institutions do some self reflection, this problem isn't going to go away.

However, their analysis of expert credibility into two distinct «convinced» and «unconvinced» camps and the lack of nuance in defining the terms «climate deniers,» «skeptics,» and «contrarians» both oversimplify and increase polarization within the climate debate.

Ok - I wrote a response but before posting it thought I might try cheating first, by asking you a question: Is there any evidence on any association between age and performance on the assessments you use to assess cognitive profile (assessments of the sort you use as tools to determine a causal role for cognitive profile in increasing polarization)?

The recent troubles follow Facebook's most difficult year yet, as the company dealt with fake news, «filter bubbles» that lead to increasing polarization, and congressional hearings over Russian agents» alleged use of social media to meddle with the 2016 presidential elections.

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In Dalio's view, the rising inequality is contributing to increased political polarization and reduced trust in government, financial institutions, and the media, which are all at 35 - year lows.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

Meanwhile, economic polarization increases between creditors at the top of the economic pyramid and debtors among the bottom 99 percent of the population.

Last year, around the time Jon Stewart held his Rally to Restore Sanity, John Piper «farwelled» Rob Bell, and Stephen Colbert hosted his Rally to Keep Fear Alive, we hosted our own response to the increasing theological and political polarization online: The Rally to Restore Unity.

In an era of increased religious polarization, where overtly religious messages are...

(4) Participants can discover and practice styles of communication that reduce polarization and increase understanding — owning and expressing one's own needs rather than trying to convert the other, listening with understanding, etc. (5) If the group learns these bridge - building skills, it can break out of the win - lose struggle and achieve a degree of difference - respecting, collaborative intergroup relationships.

the spread of technology and social media we are now able to relay information and arguments faster than ever before causing the polarization of people to increase at never - before - seen rates.»

In an era of increased religious polarization, where overtly religious messages are largely absent from prime - time, Linus» monologue in A Charlie Brown Christmas (taken from the book of Luke) is still somewhat remarkable.

It's true that I found Paladino's remarks about the Obamas offensive, but comments that Paladino «should fucking die» is the kind of response that only increases the hate and polarization we suffer.

For all but one of the eight measures of polarization, the increase was larger for the older group than for the youngest group.

Any explanation identifying political polarization as an outgrowth of internet or social media use, Shapiro notes, would have to account for the rapid increase in partisanship among those with limited internet use and negligible use of social media.

Don't blame the web: Political polarization has increased most among the groups least likely to use the internet and social media, study finds.»

«Environment Magazine is pleased to publish an updated and detailed paper, led by the distinguished sociologist Riley Dunlap, on the increasing partisan polarization of American attitudes to climate change, its causes, and consequences.

If we want to reduce political polarization, we have to find ways not only to expose people to conflicting information, but to increase people's receptivity to information that challenges what they believe and want to believe.»

As the robot's tail - beat frequency increased, it had a profound impact on the group's collective behavior, causing a spike in the cohesion and a small but detectable decrease in polarization — the fish largely milled together and even matched their speeds to that of the robot as it reached a certain tail - beat frequency.

In particular, we observe a significant decrease in the group cohesion and a continued decrease in the polarization of the zebrafish shoals as the robot increases its speed from 0 to 3.

POL - 2 science at 0.85 mm has been so successful that we are keen to see if operating without the membrane — which can limit the throughput and increase instrumental polarization — we can commission POL - 2 at 0.45 mm.

On the other hand, dynamic nuclear polarization of molecules via nitrogen vacancy centers has important applications in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy since it would greatly increase the standard sensitivity of current scanners.

Since the beamforming is accomplished by FPGA - based digital signal processing, multiple beams can be simultaneously formed increasing telescope throughput (in this case seven beams in each polarization were formed).

The amount of polarization rotation, they said, increases with the distance of the galaxies, and depends on direction, indicating that the universe has an axis along which more rotation occurs.

In a time of increasing political and economic polarization, we need conversation, empathy, and character woven into our public life.

Recognition explores the power of friendship and personal relationships to transcend the common transactions of daily life and our increasing social polarization.

Specifically, SCT would predict that, as scientific literacy increases, polarization of perceptions of the risk that climate change poses to human health and prosperity should decrease.

In the light of this peer - reviewed research, we have to ask ourselves: if we are striving to increase scientific literacy, won't we just be making the polarization that exists around climate change worse?

Yet, we find that consensus - messaging does not increase political polarization on the issue (perhaps partly due to the neutral scientific character of the message) and shifts the opinions of both Democrats and Republicans in directions consistent with the conclusions of climate science.

It increases, rather than decreases the polarization, and it starts to overshadow those issues where you do make valid points.

Even if Trump himself were gone tomorrow, the nation still faces simmering crises (falling energy return on investment, increasing economic inequality, over-reliance on debt, climate change) that appear to be leading toward collapse of government and the economy; meanwhile, as a result of political polarization, social fragmentation, plain old corruption (see NRA), and truth decay we are losing whatever ability we ever had to address those crises.

An article in last Monday's edition of The New York Times called «A Sign of the Court's Polarization: Choice of Clerks» described the increasing tendency for U.S. Supreme Court judges to hire clerks of like - minded political ideology.

The study supports a growing body of evidence that increased political polarization is due in part to changes in the way people consume information.