But when there’s controversy, when whole tribes disagree, then you know that you’re on the new pastures, dealing with Us versus Them. And that’s when it’s time to shift into manual mode. Why? Because when tribes disagree, it’s almost always because their automatic settings say different things, because their emotional moral compasses point in opposite directions. Here we can’t get by with common sense, because our common sense is not as common as we think.
But heightened emotions also means that identity is threatened, so identity-protective motivated thinking kicks in.
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