Robb Willer: How to have better political conversations
罗博威勒: 如何更好地谈论政治
Robb Willer's political research has investigated various topics, including economic inequality, racial prejudice, masculine overcompensation and Americans' views of climate change. Full bio
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as most people do,
is getting worse in our country,
between the left and the right
in really any of our lifetimes.
if research backs up your intuition.
你的直觉是否被研究证实过。
the answer is sadly yes.
have grown further apart.
in these ideological silos,
talking only to like-minded others
to live in different parts of the country.
most alarming of all of it
animosity on both sides.
don't like one another.
They don't want to date one another.
他们不想和对方约会。
they find each other less attractive,
就觉得对方不像之前那么有吸引力,
their children to marry someone
the students that I work with,
我与共事的学生
some sort of social pattern --
with this pattern?
with political polarization?
we're in a zombie apocalypse movie.
and destroy society.
in the zombie apocalypse movie,
it's being propagated by the other people,
都可能会被其他人所传播着
(在僵尸启示录中饰演 “好人”)
to what we hold dear,
in the army of the undead.
they think they're in?
that they're the good guys
that they think that they're Brad Pitt
that we're all a part of this.
我们都是其中的一部分。
is that we can be a part of the solution.
都能成为解决方案的一部分。
at polarization in everyday life?
才能逐渐弥合两极化?
and communicate with
建立关系与对话?
that I and my colleague, Matt Feinberg,
doing research on this topic.
that we discovered
for understanding polarization
is undergirded by a deeper moral divide.
根深蒂固的道德分歧。
in the history of political psychology
有一项确凿的发现,
by Jon Haidt and Jesse Graham,
tend to endorse different values
倾向对不同的价值观
tend to endorse values like equality
倾向于认同平等、公平、
and protection from harm
values like loyalty, patriotism,
that maybe this moral divide
for understanding how it is
talk to one another
seem to talk past one another
to write a persuasive essay
in support of same-sex marriage.
tended to make arguments
of equality and fairness.
如平等及公平来论述。
to love whoever they choose,"
爱他们选择的人。”
as other Americans."
同样的平等权利。”
that 69 percent of liberals
moral values in constructing their essay,
价值观来写论文,
one of the more conservative moral values,
偏向保守派的道德价值观,
to be trying to persuade conservatives.
and had them make persuasive arguments
要他们写具有说服力的论据
the official language of the US,
political position,
much better at this.
conservative moral values,
invoked a liberal moral value,
自由派的道德价值观,
to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
应该是自由派人士。
why we're in trouble here. Right?
我们有这种两极化问题,对吧?
they're their most deeply held beliefs.
是他们最坚信不移的信念。
to fight and die for their values.
just to agree with you
只为了获得你的认同
want to agree with you on anyway?
you're making to your Republican uncle
just have to change his view,
his underlying values, too,
that we call moral reframing,
我们称之为道德重塑框架
in a series of experiments.
and conservatives to a study
来做一个研究,
attitudes surveyed.
pro-environmental essay
of care and protection from harm.
及保护不受伤害等价值观。
"In many important ways
“从很多重要方面来看,
to the places we live in,"
造成严重的危害。“
that we take steps now
from being done to our Earth."
a really different essay
the conservative value of moral purity.
and skies pure is of vital importance."
保持纯淨是非常重要的。”
to be disgusting."
can help us preserve
about the places we live."
to read just a nonpolitical essay.
so we could get a baseline.
让我们有基准线。
attitudes afterwards,
it didn't matter what essay they read.
给他们读什么论文不重要。
pro-environmental attitudes regardless.
for environmental protection.
of progressive environmental policies
是道德纯洁的论文,
one of the other two essays.
who read the moral purity essay
道德纯洁短论的保守派,
that they believed in global warming
didn't even mention global warming.
this moral reframing effect was.
of different political issues.
or national health insurance,
political issues to conservative values
to the right on conservative policy issues
支持保守派政治议题,
the official language of the US,
policy issues to liberal moral values
与自由派道德价值观相联系
have the same clear message:
someone on some policy,
to their underlying moral values.
连在一起会有帮助。
it's something we really struggle to do.
to persuade somebody on a political issue,
想说服某人某项政治议题时,
as we rehearse our own reasons
some sort of political position.
these reframed moral arguments,
empathy and respect."
同理心及尊重。”
somebody in this country.
there's a white cop and a black cop,
白人警察和黑人警察,
和一个一丝不苟的警察。
to come together and they cooperate,
that they had to cross. Right?
than ever before.
where we are in this country,
of a buddy cop movie --
to come back together.
但就快要弥合在一起了。
is going to start with us.
all the things that divide us.
because this hate and contempt
the very fabric of our society.
to let them hate us either.
that we owe our fellow citizens.
这是我们亏欠同胞的。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Robb Willer - Social psychologistRobb Willer's political research has investigated various topics, including economic inequality, racial prejudice, masculine overcompensation and Americans' views of climate change.
Why you should listen
Robb Willer is a professor of sociology, psychology and organizational behavior at Stanford University. He studies the role of morality in politics. His research shows how moral values, typically a source of ideological division, can also be used to bring people together. His political research has investigated various topics, including economic inequality, racial prejudice, masculine overcompensation and Americans' views of climate change.
Willer has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Golden Apple Teaching Award, the only award given by UC-Berkeley’s student body. Willer's class, "Self and Society," was the highest enrollment class at UC-Berkeley. His consulting clients have included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, the Last Resort Exoneration Project and the Department of Justice.
Willer's writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, including his op-eds "The Secret to Political Persuasion" and "Is the Environment a Moral Cause?"
Willer received a Ph.D from Cornell University and a BA from the University of Iowa. Before becoming a professor, he worked as a dishwasher, construction worker, mover, line cook and union organizer.
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