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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Difficult

  This seems promising.

Guardian UK: Make America talk again: the lab teaching sworn enemies to have decent conversations - Could the secret to healing a riven politics lie in a Difficult Conversations Laboratory?
Participants sign a waiver warning them that the experiments could cause stress or unpleasant feelings, before they are surveyed on a range of fraught topics, from abortion to the Israel-Palestine conflict. They are paired with someone who utterly disagrees with them and asked to talk things through around a small conference table. All while being recorded.

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