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As we spend time with family over the holidays, political conversations are probably going to come up. Here's how to have those conversations in a way that genuinely opens up the other person's mind — without leaving you feeling like you're beating your head against a wall.
The left wants to achieve far-reaching structural change – the sort of political reframing that requires coalition building. Are polarizing words throwing them off course?<br>
Scientific American Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks .” To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign up here. Both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech now have applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full approval of their vaccines against COVID-19, reports Daniel E. Slotnik at The New York Times. Currently, both are authorized on an emergency-use basis by the agency. Many people, me included earlier this year, mistakenly have referred to the Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines as approved in the U.S. I mention this not because the ...
By Arnaud Gagneur and Karin Tamerius May 20, 2021 Albert Tercero Dr. Gagneur is a neonatologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Sherbrooke. His research has led to programs that increase childhood vaccinations through motivational interviewing. Dr. Tamerius is a former psychiatrist and the founder of Smart Politics, an organization that teaches people to communicate more persuasively. The difference between people who eagerly want the Covid-19 vaccine and people who are hesitant is not as great as it may seem. Most vaccine holdouts are not anti-vaxxers or conspiracy the...
Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney Jolynna Sinanan Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney So far, that conversation has been "all about the technology, according to Jolynna Sinanan, a digital ethnographer at the University of Sydney in Australia, "whereas it should be the other way around." The internet and social media have only become widely used in the past decade or so, meaning we're just beginning to establish norms around how people should or shouldn't behave online. Instead, she said, we should be asking "what does being a person in a community mean?" In Trinidad, where Sinanan has s...