What can the theory of “communal thinking” tell us about how we navigate political issues?
Steven Sloman - a professor of cognitive, psychological, and linguistic sciences at Brown University and co-author of the book The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone - says: “We should think about the process of thought not as something that goes on inside an individual head, but something that happens between people.”
In this episode of (Press)ed, we’ll consider how communal thinking might influence our political beliefs, polarization, and how we’re affected by the news media.
