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As part of the Rock Ethics Institute Expanding Empathy lecture series, New York University associate professor of psychology Jay Van Bavel delved into the role social identity plays amid the coronavirus pandemic and the issue of polarization in the U.S. during a virtual event on Wednesday.
Van Bavel said he believes it didn t have to be this way about how the U.S. handled the pandemic and the partisan rhetoric of the pandemic.
He said the way national leaders acted and how seriously they handled the coronavirus is what made the pandemic a partisan issue in some countries but not others.