Nov
01
2019
![APA](https://socialecology.uci.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large_3_2_ratio__1080x720_/public/news_images/apa_950x535.png?itok=PqNHirA3)
"One feature of group identity is that people want to protect and promote their own groups. As a result, partisan identity makes us more accepting of information that supports our beliefs and more critical of information that contradicts them" — Peter Ditto, professor of psychological science, explains the factors that drive political affiliation.