ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
The breakthrough to be pursued in ID-COMPRESSION is that social polarization is information compressibility, where attitudes provide redundant information about group membership. ID-COMPRESSION proposes that a polarized social information system is a socially comprehensible one, where it is easy to categorize people into groups and identify social outliers. Since comprehensibility depends on regularities, this will consequently be a compressible social information system. If successful, this radical theory of social normativity will explain how: (1) social identity becomes embedded in social information via social interaction; (2) information thereby becomes comprehensible in social…
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