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Please follow me on Substack

If you’ve enjoyed my politics-related work, would you be willing to subscribe to my depolarization-aimed Substack newsletter? I think it’s…

Dec 27, 2023

Please follow me on Substack

Dec 27, 2023

A criticism of “polarization is not the problem” stances: Why American liberals should want to…

This piece has been moved to my Substack newsletter: https://defusingamericananger.substack.com/p/a-criticism-of-polarization-is-not

Jul 29, 2023

Jul 29, 2023

How do groups come to believe such vastly different things?,

The following is a transcript of one of the most popular episodes of my People Who Read People podcast in 2022: a talk with Matthew…

Mar 9, 2023

Mar 9, 2023

Examining divisive liberal-side political rhetoric from A.R. Moxon (aka @JuliusGoat on Twitter)

This piece will be a criticism of A.R. Moxon, who runs the @JuliusGoat Twitter account. A.R. Moxon is the author of novel The Revisionaries…

Jun 8, 2022

Examining divisive liberal-side political rhetoric from A.R. Moxon (aka @JuliusGoat on Twitter)

Jun 8, 2022

Preventing polarization: The importance of pushing back on divisive rhetoric on “your side”

I’ve thought about political polarization a lot the last few years. It’s been a frequent focus of mine for my podcast People Who Read…

Apr 14, 2022

Preventing polarization: The importance of pushing back on divisive rhetoric on “your side”

Apr 14, 2022

Examining the strangeness of life as a fundamental existential fear

(For an audio version of this, see my podcast.)

Jan 17, 2022

Jan 17, 2022

Podcast episodes about political polarization

For my psychology podcast, People Who Read People, I’ve done quite a few interviews with people on the subject of political polarization…

Oct 30, 2021

Podcast episodes about political polarization

Oct 30, 2021

How social media divides us (abridged version)

This is a shorter version of my piece The psychology behind how social media may be increasing polarization (here’s a podcast version). If…

Feb 27, 2021

How social media divides us (abridged version)

Feb 27, 2021

Examining indicators of deceptive, staged videos

This will be a place where I examine indicators of videos being deceptive or staged. There’s only one here now but I will add to this over…

Feb 12, 2021

Examining indicators of deceptive, staged videos

Feb 12, 2021

How social media divides us

If broadcast TV was an opiate of the masses, is social media an amphetamine?

Oct 28, 2020

Oct 28, 2020

Zachary Elwood

Zachary Elwood

Host of psych podcast People Who Read People. My research into online deception featured in NYT, WaPo, more. Wrote poker tells books (translated 8 languages).

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