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Danagal Young

Danagal Young

Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware and Director of its Center for Political Communication.

Aug 31, 2026

24:37
But Dana says maybe even more important than comprehension and control is that third C word, community.
24:45
And this simply captures the notion that we are social animals who do not exist truly as individuals in a vacuum.
24:54
We only exist embedded within a social context.
24:58
And that has to do with how we were able to survive historically.
25:03
Even here in the U.S., that notion even of rampant, you know, ardent individualism is itself, believe it or not, a group norm.
25:16
prizes that value of individualism, which I think is kind of hilariously ironic.
28:36
Research has found that increased homogeneity within a political party serves to crank up the emotional temperature for those on that side.
28:46
There is something primal in us that happens when we look like our team, we live like our team, we live in the same places as our team, we worship like our team.

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