Category | Cognitive Politics

action allows hope allows acceptance
active processing
Alternative Group Boundaries
Anger
- Avoid Displaced Anger
- Processing emotions such as anger
argue with your preferred opponent
Bedrock Centrism
Big Tent / Welcome
breaking patterns
- debunking
- leading with facts (backfires)
Checklist - Warning Signs
- Winning Your Conversation
cognitive bias, overcoming
communication techniques
- active listening
- Altercasting
- Encourage Talk Beyond Talking-Points
- Questions
  - How Will That Work
- Skip the conclusion
- yes, and...
Complexify
Conversation Basics: Agree
- Agree on fears and move on
Conversation Steps
- Ask
- Listen
- Observation
- Reflect
- Request
- Share
conversational frame
- judgment as the purpose of a conversation, avoiding
Debunking: Emotions & Community
Echo This: Send Oxygen to the Healthy Debates
exchange listening
Fact Artillery — Deeper Foxholes
Facts: When They Work, When They Fail
- Facts Support Stories
false opposites: ideas with tension
Fight, Flight or Friends
- Openness to humor and levity
Floater Centrism
Holding a movement together
hypocrisy doesn't prevent shame
inoculation
- double crux
Intra-Progressive Communications
Judgment: Weight Facts, Don't Judge Entire Belief Systems
language and frame
- advocate for framing
- Indirect: provide frames or facts outside political arguments
metaphor
moral foundations values
- sanctity vs disgust
nurture your curiousity
Paradoxical Thinking, or Over-Active Listening
Progressives, internal dynamics
psychology, values, moral foundations
requests
Say "yes" to what you want, not "no" to the other ideas
say why before your conclusion
separating moral foundation values
Separation of the Righteous
strategies, misc
- steel argument
team story
- Exiting the Trump Train
- journey together
- messengers
Teams and Identities
- Continuing down the path
Tribalism, Centrism, Values
Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Anger —> (3) Circle the Wagons cycle
Trolling, provocation and other challenges
- Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Innocent Echo —> (3) Attacked
values and priorities — tune to theirs
Your state of mind