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Something has changed in the United States. We behave more like warring tribes than a unified nation of people who have different values and ideas about what policies should be enacted. Political scientist Lilliana Mason explains in this episode how and why we moved away from issue-based polarization and entered a realm of identity-based polarization.

• Podcast Audio: https://goo.gl/XHkQKg
• Transcript: https://goo.gl/f5GZQT

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YANSS 133 – How politics became our identity
Dinner parties used to be where you avoided politics. Now talking about politics at dinner parties is the norm. Years ago, we avoided politics because we assumed the people at our table had diverse…

The marshmallow test is one of the most well-known studies in all of psychology, but a new replication suggests we've been learning the wrong lesson from its findings for decades.

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YANSS 131 – The psychological forces that make waiting for marshmallows easier also make life itself easier
In 1990, psychologist Walter Michel’s and his team released a landmark study into delayed gratification. They offered kids a single marshmallow now, or two marshmallows later if they could resist t…
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