It's amazing how many people think of themselves as excommunicated from their moral/political/intellectual community.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
These groups split on ethical grounds & then each side thinks of themselves as having been cast out by a bigger & wrong-headed mainstream.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Sometimes, one of them is clearly right & the group has become dominated by an attitude or approach which doesn't include them.
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But very often, it is not so clear & people's perception of the schism maximises the other side & minimises their own completely sincerely.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Or they just get the balance completely wrong. Is someone going to tell me there is a name for this phenomenon? You usually do.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yep, as you guessed there is a name: group polarisation. See Cass Sunstein's work.
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What sunstein found was that groups actively diverge from each other and/or the mainstream and become more extreme in their ideas/views.
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Oh yes, I knew about this. Will be publishing something on it in a couple of days. But that perception of the other side as big/mainstream?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Look forward to it. On differential size perception, I haven't noticed that and I can't recall a name.
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Replying to @NeilGarratt @HPluckrose
Perhaps it's based on loss aversion: threats and losses loom larger than opportunities or gains?
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Yes, maybe! And maybe evolution has favoured people who see a threat as greater than it is rather than lesser or accurately?
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