# In an op-ed, Professor Jonathan Haidt discusses the rise of prejudice across political parties

1 Faculty News January 1, 2016 ![Edge.org logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033852.jpg?itok=xmCjPTXF)>

Excerpt from [Edge.org](http://edge.org/response-detail/26766) -- "My nomination for 'news that will stay news' is a paper by political scientists Shanto Iyengar and Sean Westwood, titled 'Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization.' Iyengar and Westwood report four studies (all using nationally representative samples) in which they gave Americans various ways to reveal both cross-partisan and cross-racial prejudice, and in all cases cross-partisan prejudice was larger."

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