"Understanding the Attraction TO Political Extremes"

Session 1: Affective roots of polarization

Moderator: Santiago Amaya

• Mina Cikara: "Meta-perceptions as a psychological security dilemma"

• Amit Goldenberg: "Emotion regulation contagion"

• Joaquin Navajas: "Affective polarization across domains"

Session 2: Polarizing interactions

Moderator: Julieta Suarez-Cao

• Federico Barrera Lemarchand: "Use of complex language impairs moral argumentation in polarized contexts"

• Matias Tarillo: "Which party does he/she/they support?"

• Lucía Pedraza: "Attraction by pairwise coherence explains the emergence of ideological sorting"

• Ramiro Galvez: "Does social media cause polarization? Evidence from Argentina"

Session 3: Polarization in social media

Moderator: Rosario Queirolo

• Federico Zimmerman: "Attraction to politically extreme users on social media"

• Paula Clerici: "Social media, polarization, and fake news"

• Nicolas Ajzenman: "Rooting for the same team: Shared social identities in a polarized context"

• Guillermo Solovey: "Understanding belief in political statements using a model-driven experimental approach"

Session 4: Consequences of political polarization

Moderator: Leonardo Maldonado

• Neftali Villanueva: "Crossed disagreements and public deliberation"

• Fredy Monge: "Trust in science, populist attitudes and the role of the media"

• Lucia Freira: "The interplay between partisanship, forecasted COVID-19 deaths, and support for preventive policies"

• Horacio Larreguy Arbesú: "Accountability under polarization"

Closing remarks: Joaquin Navajas & Amit Goldenberg