To Fight Polarization, Ask, “How Does That Policy Work?”
When people discover that they don’t know as much as they thought they did, something interesting happens: their political attitudes become less extreme.
Alex Chesterfield
Alex Chesterfield is a behavioral scientist working in financial services. She is an associate of the Depolarization Project, based in Stanford, California. The Depolarization Project’s podcast, Changed My Mind, interviews leaders from politics, business, and academia on a substantive issue they’ve changed their mind on. Previously, she was an elected local government councillor in the U.K. and has an M.Sc. from UCL in cognitive and decision science.