The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides

In contrast, we resent dominance, in which powerful individuals attempt to rule over others using intimidation.

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Kahneman emphasizes that often we engage System 2 not to make a decision but instead to rationalize a conclusion reached by System 1.

In fact, “tribalism stripped to its essence” seems to describe all segments of American politics in the Trump era.

If we recognize when people who agree with us are trying to close our minds and shut down discussion, then we have a chance to participate in a more deliberative process.

we also can improve our self-regard by rationalizing our behavior when we violate social norms.

We have an instinct to recognize and reward cooperators,

Moreover, when you give politically engaged voters on opposite sides an identical piece of new information, each side comes away believing more strongly in its original point of view.

Another Myers-Briggs axis is known as “judging versus perceiving,”