Robb Willer: How to have better political conversations
洛博.威樂: 如何有更好的政治對話
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.
你的直覺是否有研究實證。
the answer is sadly yes.
很不幸的是「有」。
have grown further apart.
in these ideological silos,
意識形態的巨塔中,
talking only to like-minded others
to live in different parts of the country.
選擇住在不同的地方。
most alarming of all of it
animosity on both sides.
don't like one another.
They don't want to date one another.
他們不要跟對方約會。
就覺得對方不像之前那麼有吸引力,
they find each other less attractive,
their children to marry someone
the students that I work with,
我與共事的學生群
some sort of social pattern --
with this pattern?
with political polarization?
we're in a zombie apocalypse movie.
殭屍啟示錄這類的電影裡。
and destroy society.
in the zombie apocalypse movie,
it's being propagated by the other people,
都是另一邊的人搞起來的。
to what we hold dear,
in the army of the undead.
they think they're in?
是活在什麼電影裡呢?
that they're the good guys
自己才是布萊德·彼特,
that they think that they're Brad Pitt
that we're all a part of this.
is that we can be a part of the solution.
成為解決方案的一部分。
at polarization in everyday life?
才能逐漸消彌兩極化?
and communicate with
建立關係、對話?
that I and my colleague, Matt Feinberg,
doing research on this topic.
that we discovered
for understanding polarization
兩極化非常有幫助,
is undergirded by a deeper moral divide.
根深蒂固的道德分歧。
in the history of political psychology
有一項強有力的發現,
by Jon Haidt and Jesse Graham,
tend to endorse different values
傾向對不同的價值觀
tend to endorse values like equality
對於認同平等、公平、
and protection from harm
values like loyalty, patriotism,
that maybe this moral divide
for understanding how it is
talk to one another
常常好像雞同鴨講。
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.
如平等及公平來論述。
to love whoever they choose,"
愛他們選擇的人。」
as other Americans."
同樣的平等權利。」
that 69 percent of liberals
moral values in constructing their essay,
價值觀來寫短論,
one of the more conservative moral values,
偏向保守派的道德價值觀,
to be trying to persuade conservatives.
and had them make persuasive arguments
要他們寫說服論據
the official language of the US,
political position,
much better at this.
表現也沒有比較好。
conservative moral values,
invoked a liberal moral value,
自由派的道德價值觀,
to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
應該是自由派人士。
why we're in trouble here. Right?
我們有這種麻煩,對吧?
they're their most deeply held beliefs.
是他們最堅信不移的信念。
to fight and die for their values.
just to agree with you
只為了與你認同
want to agree with you on anyway?
you're making to your Republican uncle
提出的那番呼籲,
just have to change his view,
his underlying values, too,
that we call moral reframing,
我們稱之為道德重新框架,
in a series of experiments.
and conservatives to a study
來做一個研究,
attitudes surveyed.
pro-environmental essay
of care and protection from harm.
及保護不受傷害等價值觀。
"In many important ways
「從很多重要方面來看,
to the places we live in,"
造成真正的危害。」
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."
保持純淨是非常重要的。」
to be disgusting."
can help us preserve
about the places we live."
to read just a nonpolitical essay.
讓我們有基準線。
so we could get a baseline.
attitudes afterwards,
給他們讀什麼短論不重要。
it didn't matter what essay they read.
高度親環境態度。
pro-environmental attitudes regardless.
for environmental protection.
of progressive environmental policies
是道德純潔的短論,
one of the other two essays.
who read the moral purity essay
道德純潔短論的保守派,
that they believed in global warming
didn't even mention global warming.
this moral reframing effect was.
效應有多強大。
of different political issues.
政治議題做過同樣的研究。
or national health insurance,
political issues to conservative values
與保守派價值觀,
連起來會有幫助。
to the right on conservative policy issues
支持保守派政治議題,
the official language of the US,
policy issues to liberal moral values
與自由派道德價值觀,
have the same clear message:
someone on some policy,
to their underlying moral values.
連結在一起會有幫助。
it's something we really struggle to do.
to persuade somebody on a political issue,
想說服某人某項政治議題時,
as we rehearse our own reasons
如果只重複論述自己的理由,
some sort of political position.
these reframed moral arguments,
道德重新框架的論述,
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,
和一個一絲不苟的警察。
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.
但就快要彌合在一起了。
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.
至少這是我們欠同胞的。
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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