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10/9/2018 Diagnosing and Treating American Democracy in 2018 Matt Motyl @MattMotyl New York University Stern School of Business OpenMind Civil Politics I may not have voted for him but hes my president, and I hope he does a good job .

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Diagnosing and Treating American Democracy in 2018

Matt Motyl @MattMotyl New York University – Stern School of Business OpenMind Civil Politics

I may not have voted for him but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.

  • John Wayne, 1960
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I hope he fails.

  • Rush Limbaugh, 2008

You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables… they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

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She’s such a nasty woman. Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second

  • Amendment. By the way, if she

gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do,

  • folks. Although the Second

Amendment people, maybe there is.

Graph 1: Congress is polarized, most ever

Source: PolarizedAmerica.com (McCarty, Poole, & Rosenthal, 2006, 2014)

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Graph 2: Voters most polarized, ever

(Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes, 2012)

But, why?

  • The news media
  • Fake news / bad science
  • Money, money, money
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Motyl, 2016

Political Segregation

Motyl, 2016

Political Segregation

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Motyl, 2016

Political Segregation

Motyl, 2016

Political Segregation

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Political Segregation

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Political Segregation

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Motyl, 2016

Political Segregation

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Segregation Gives Way to Divergent Life Experiences

Political Segregation Isn’t Just Geographic

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Segregation Drives Attitude Polarization

Capital Punishment

Liberals Conservatives

(Keating, Van Boven, & Judd, 2016; Moscovici & Zavalloni, 1969)

Black Lives Matter

Gun Control/Rights

Segregation Drives Attitude Polarization

Capital Punishment

Pro-vaccines Anti-vaccines

Black Lives Matter

Vaccine Attitudes

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Segregation Reduces Cross-Group Relationships It becomes much easier to say nasty things about people when you know you don’t have to face their families at the dinner table.

  • Fmr. Rep. Jim Leach (IA)

Segregation Drives Dislike of Those People

Liking for us and disliking for them Liberals Conservatives

(Motyl, 2016)

(Motyl, Johnson, Graham, & Haidt, under review; Motyl & Melton, 2018)

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Segregation Drives Dislike of Those People

Those people care about different issues, have different information, and think differently.

How might we improve cultural competence?

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How Might We Improve Dialogue Between Groups?

  • There must be a way…
  • Building relationships through extended contact (Wright et

al., 1997)

  • Civil Politics (www.civilpolitics.org)
  • If segregation is critical to moral, political, and perhaps

even medical preference polarization, then integration may be one treatment to reduce the polarization.

  • 3-year longitudinal study in all 50 states

Building Relationships  Cultural Competence

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0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 Political Manichaeism Hostile Activism Cultural INcompetence Pre-Intervention Post-Intervention

Intervention Outcomes

Polarization

Promoting Cultural Competence

  • Training skills to improve cultural competence
  • OpenMind Platform (openmindplatform.org)
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https://openmindplatform.org/

  • 5 training modules
  • Viewpoint Diversity
  • Intellectual Humility
  • Reasoning (and Bias)
  • Roots of Different Views
  • Constructive Disagreement
  • Assessments before, during, after, and much later

https://openmindplatform.org/

  • Designed for schools, universities, and organizations
  • View member completion status
  • Gamification
  • Basic program free
  • Customizable
  • In 262+ universities, 30+ high schools, 30+ organizations and

corporations in the US

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Can We Promote Cultural Competence?

Cultural Competence

What are other consequences of this program?

Polarization

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How might we improve dialogue across group divides?

  • Escape our bubbles!
  • Try to understand what matters to them
  • Speak to them in ways that they

understand… and does not insult them Treatment Rx: Burst our bubbles (motivational interviewing) Diagnosis: Malignant Cultural Conflict Condition: Serious Address their concerns when talking (client- centered)

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  • Ph.D. Students
  • Zach Melton
  • JP Prims
  • openmindplatform.org
  • civilpolitics.org

Email: matt.motyl@gmail.com Twitter: @MattMotyl

  • Funding & Data:

Thank you!

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It’s become safer to retreat into our own bubbles… surrounded by people who look like us & share the same political outlook & never challenge our assumptions… [this] trend is a threat to our democracy.

Anti-vaxxers Cultural competency / sensitivity patient centered, joint decision-making… but patients often don’t have background to make informed decisions and are sometimes empowered with internet ignorance; How do you talk to someone who makes decisions based on fake news? (autism; hormone-replacement therapy risks and benefits; alternative therapies) Motivational interviewing – interviewing patients to try to figure out what motivates them and what they care about… then frame treatment in terms of that These are about building relationships with patients