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  1. 'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

    #democracy #psychology #politics #populism

    theconversation.com/cognitive-

  2. 'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

    #democracy #psychology #politics #populism

    theconversation.com/cognitive-

  3. 'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

    #democracy #psychology #politics #populism

    theconversation.com/cognitive-

  4. 'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

    #democracy #psychology #politics #populism

    theconversation.com/cognitive-

  5. 'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

    #democracy #psychology #politics #populism

    theconversation.com/cognitive-

  6. AfD’s historic win splits European opinion.

    Alternative for Germany won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.

    AfD’s landslide victory has drawn celebration from Europe’s populist right and a sharp condemnation from Poland’s prime minister.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260907

    #Germany #Elections #AfD #Politics #Poland #FarRight #Populism

  7. Sunday, January 18, 2026

    Does Russia or China actually threaten Greenland? Experts say Trump's warnings don't match reality -- Ukraine faces potential meltdown as Russia seeks to disconnect nuclear plants -- Over 163,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified by media investigation -- Crashed Russian drone discovered in Moldova, authorities report ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  8. "We must confess that our adversaries have a marked advantage over us in the discussion. In very few words they can announce a half-truth; and in order to demonstrate that it is incomplete, we are obliged to have recourse to long and dry dissertations."

    — Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, First Series (1845)

    @socialpsych

    #halfTruth #quotes #sophisms #truth #postFactual #fakeNews #propaganda #Hasbara #complotism #reality #populism #socialMedia #antisemitism #judeoPhobia #Paris #liberalism #optimistSchool #Bastiat

  9. This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

    #populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/ric

  10. This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

    #populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/ric

  11. This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

    #populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/ric

  12. This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

    #populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/ric

  13. This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

    #populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/ric

  14. Here comes my short #introduction as a Mastodon newbie: I'm a researcher at University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (soon #RPTU) and interested in #polcomm, #viscomm, politics & #gender, and #populism. I'm also on a mission to watch every cute dog video there is.