Stanford Researchers Bring Together People With Different Political Views

Stanford Researchers Bring Together People With Different Political Views

President Trump’s shadow is shown on an American flag as he speaks before signing an executive order in Charlotte, N.C. on Aug. 31, 2018. (Chuck Burton/AP) Stanford researchers wanted to test a theory: If you put Americans with different views together, it might change their minds.

They wanted to find out more about the political divide in the U.S., and they had a hypothesis that people on opposite sides of the aisle aren’t actually so sharply divided.

Researchers put 526 Americans at a resort in Texas for a weekend in September. The nonpartisan group Helena funded the $3 million weekend.The social […]

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