Merriam-Webster named "polarization" the word of the year in 2024. Hopefully, by identifying a problem, the country can begin to address it. However, the term itself is deeply problematic.

How do political differences affect workplace performance? A study of professional golfers, co-authored by Yale SOM’s Balázs Kovács, suggests that working alongside someone of the opposite political ...

Getting the facts straight about climate change is not enough: Even though there’s plenty of evidence on its many effects, people are more divided than ever on how to handle emissions. Truly ...

Fears of extreme polarization are repeated widely these days. Yet the process of polarization is one that can be understood and managed. Rather than wringing our hands and wondering what we did to ...

Polarization is the splitting of a whole into opposing parts. Source: Dids / Pexels What is Polarization? Polarization is defined as “the act of dividing something, especially something that contains ...

Columnist Sienna Bevan reflects on her past stance to explore why learning to approach disagreement with more empathy is ...

A new mechanism steers diodes made of a single enantiomer to emit light of right- and left-handed polarizations ...