BRIDGE – Building resilience to reduce polarisation and growing extremism

BRIDGE project aims to raise awareness among local actors and strengthen their capacity to reduce individual and collective vulnerability to radicalization while at the same time mitigating the phenomenon of polarization.

Conflict and Polarization

The initiative is an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are interested in helping to solve the problems of violent conflict and political polarization by cultivating new ideas about the causes, effects, and prevention of violent conflicts around the world and their impact on global development.

Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape

The Hidden Tribes of America is a year-long project launched by More in Common in late 2018 to better understand the forces that drive political polarization and tribalism in the United States today, and to galvanize efforts to address them.

Hot Politics Lab

Hot Politics Lab uses political psychology and adjacent fields to explain salient socio-political themes. To date the Lab’s work engages with themes such as populism, polarization, the role of emotions in politics and the quality of leadership.

HSU Social Identity Lab

The Humboldt State Social Identity Lab (SI Lab) researches the social identity and self-categorization processes that underlie social and political attitudes and behavior. The Lab examines a range of intra and intergroup processes involved in social influence and intergroup relations, including minority influence, extremism, trends toward populism, and support for non-traditional and even authoritarian leadership.

Political Communication Lab

The Political Communication Lab is a research group from Stanford University’s Political Science and Communication departments who work on large-scale content analysis of news and elite rhetoric, experimental studies of political polarization, and cross-national investigation of public opposition to immigration.

Political Communication Research Group

Political Communication Research Group studies the interaction between political elites, media, and citizens. Their work is to understand how and under which conditions political elites communicate with citizens, what role media organizations and journalists play in the political communication process, how framing works, how fake news influences citizens, how emotions play a role in the political communication process, and how citizens process elite and journalistic communication.

Political Science Research Laboratory

Political Science Research Laboratory (PSRL) is a research laboratory at Northwestern University. It engages with themes such as identity, partisanship, public opinion, media bias, polarization, diversity, and prejudice.

Politics and Communication Lab

The Politics and Communication Lab (PAC Lab) is a collaborative research group that investigates the role of digital and social media in the political process. The PAC Lab is committed to faculty-student collaborative research that addresses important questions related to contemporary political communication.

Project Divided

Project Divided is a start-up initiative that develops and implements projects that work toward understanding the ways that communities are divided and how people can come together to solve some of the most pressing issues of today.

Polarization and Social Change Lab

Polarization and Social Change Lab addresses political, economic, and ecological problems by conducting research on actionable solutions sufficient to check rising polarization and incivility in the U.S. The Lab’s work is focused on developing practical scientific knowledge in three main areas: paths to political consensus, reducing harms of polarization, and effective strategies of social activism.

Political Polarization Solutions

Political Polarization Solutions Project at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy work on how to mitigate political polarization in the United States and/or its damaging repercussions.

Self-Effects on Social Media and Political Polarization

The project investigates if and how citizens´ expression on social media contributes to political polarization. It aims to identify the main polarizing issues discussed on social media and to understand the structural features of social media platforms that contribute to polarized political discussion.

Social Identity and Morality Lab

Social Identity and Morality Lab examines how collective concerns—ranging from group identities to moral values and political ideologies—can shape even the most basic elements of perception and evaluation. The Lab takes a social neuroscience approach to these issues, moving from the function of brain regions to large-scale collective action.

The Depolarization Project

The Depolarization Project is committed to trying to discover what is and is not effective at tackling polarization. Their research areas are the impact of single-issue campaigns on polarization, the activities of activist groups to combat the spread of fake news and how the political viewpoints change the perception of validity.

The Neighbourhood Revisited

The Neighbourhood Revisited research programme is coordinated by Stockholm University. The programme explores the extent to which spatial polarization produces a society that is increasingly polarized in attitudes, valuations, lifestyles, and behavior and, thus, less socially cohesive.

The Polarization Lab

The Polarization Lab at Duke University brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to develop new technology and to bridge America’s partisan divide. The Lab is building a new social media platform for public discussion of politics that is informed by the latest advances in social psychology, political science, and machine learning.

What Policy Communication Works for Migration? Using Values to Depolarise

The project aims to understand what values-based policy communication is and how they can communicate policies that are concordant with the values of their audiences in order to elicit sympathy.