Zero-sum game

What makes someone see another group's struggle as connected to their own? What transforms an individual racial or ethnic identity into a broader sense of solidarity with another group? Or why might some people embrace that solidarity while others resist it? Once solidarity develops, how durable is it when politics is so divisive these days? And our guest today studies exactly these questions.

Dr. Efrén Pérez received both his master's and PhD from Duke University in political science.

He's currently a professor of political science and psychology at UCLA, the director of UCLA's Race, Ethnicity, Politics, and Society Lab, and the co-director of its Intergroup Relations Lab.

His current research has experimentally examined solidarity between people of color, the psychological mechanisms that strengthen or inhibit it, and the relationship between solidarity and political behavior.

Dr. Pérez, welcome to Ego Over Id.