Our Team

Our interdisciplinary research unit combines theoretical and methodological expertise from various disciplines in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities to facilitate a profound and comprehensive analysis of the complex phenomenon of affective polarization.

Our research team includes:

  • psychologists and psychiatrists emphasizing individual-level conditions and correlates of affective polarization and coping strategies
  • political scientists looking at XYXY//pertinent political processes and cleavages

  • sociologists capitalizing on small- and large-scale patterns of social structure and civil society organizations

  • communication scholars analyzing media infrastructures and social discurses

  • philosophers developing conceptual frameworks for an inter- and transdisciplinary analysis