resulting from the competing theories of polarization and diversification of opinions. Our overall findings support a … predominant diversification of opinions effect. When group members share all payoffs equally, this effect overcomes polarization … in 100% of the cases where outstanding individuals are risk averse, while group polarization appears to be more likely …

mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to increasing polarization in beliefs about facts. We study this …

Does political polarization lead to dysfunctional behavior? To study this question, we investigate the attitudes of …. This effect is mainly driven by Clinton voters. This provides the first experimental evidence that political polarization …

. In this paper we examine how in a two-party system polarization and political instability affectlearning through …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between …

contributes to a polarization of the views on redistribution. …