Zero-sum beliefs and the avoidance of political conversations

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• What: The authors examine the avoidance of political conversations in the days and weeks leading up to two highly contested elections in Israel and the U.S.-a time when politics, politicians, and political conversations are clearly top-of-mind, highly salient, and of extreme importance. Specifically, the authors examine whether seeing politics as zero-sum statistically predicts people`s tendency to avoid talking about it with ideologically opposed others. While previous research has focused on various dispositional and situational factors that help explain people`s avoidance of political conversations, the authors propose that specific beliefs about . . .
  

   

  

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