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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