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‘Collective mind’ bridges societal divides − psychology research explores how watching the same thing can bring people together

  • Written by Garriy Shteynberg, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee
‘Collective mind’ bridges societal divides − psychology research explores how watching the same thing can bring people togetherPaying attention to the same thing strengthens bonds between observers.Carlos David Gomez/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Only about 1 in 4 Americans said that they had trust in the nation’s institutions in 2023 – with big business (1 in 7), television news (1 in 7) and Congress (1 in 12) scraping the very bottom.

While institutional trust...

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