Le Yaouanq, Yves; Schwardmann, Peter; van der Weele, … - 2025
naive about their own rationalizations, our model predicts ideological and affective polarization, with each side assigning … inappropriate motives to the other. Cross-partisan exchanges of narratives reduce polarization but are avoided by the agents. In … within-group exchanges agents favor skilled speakers, whose narratives worsen polarization. Our model explains partisan …