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Why Does This Election Have Us So Down? Social Science May Have An Answer

By Shankar Vedantam
Published October 23, 2016 at 5:43 PM EDT
Democrats and Republicans often have trouble seeing one another's perspectives. Researchers think this might be driven in part by their earliest experience of power — the family.
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Democrats and Republicans often have trouble seeing one another's perspectives. Researchers think this might be driven in part by their earliest experience of power — the family.

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Shankar Vedantam
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