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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…

1 min readDec 27, 2023

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Please follow me on Substack

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Zachary Elwood

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

1 min readJul 29, 2023

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Zachary Elwood

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…

36 min readMar 9, 2023

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An examination of divisive, us-vs-them liberal-side political rhetoric from A.R.

This piece will be a criticism of A.R. Moxon and his @JuliusGoat Twitter account. I’ll examine some specific tweets from his account and…

21 min readJun 8, 2022

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An examination of divisive, us-vs-them liberal-side political rhetoric from A.R.

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Zachary Elwood

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…

11 min readApr 14, 2022

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

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Zachary Elwood

Examining the strangeness of life as a fundamental existential psychology stressor

“How strange it is to be anything at all.” ‐ from Neutral Milk Hotel lyrics

13 min readJan 17, 2022

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Zachary Elwood

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…

9 min readOct 30, 2021

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Podcast episodes about political polarization

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Zachary Elwood

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…

20 min readFeb 27, 2021

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How social media divides us (abridged version)

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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…

9 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Examining indicators of deceptive, staged videos

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Zachary Elwood

How social media divides us

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

1 min readOct 28, 2020

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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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