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  • Political polarization increasingly complicates intergroup communication in the U.S.
  • Navigating ideological divides presents significant challenges for students.

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  • To explore how university students in the southern U.S. manage challenging political conversations.
  • To identify and analyze the strategies students employ when discussing politics across ideological differences.

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  • Conducted in-depth interviews with 30 university students from diverse backgrounds.
  • Utilized qualitative analysis to identify conversational strategies and their underlying psychological mechanisms.

Main Results:

  • Identified four key strategies: disengagement, negotiation, context adaptation, and information processing.
  • Interpreted these strategies as identity management processes to mitigate social and cognitive risks of political disagreement.
  • Linked strategies to Self-Categorization Theory and Identity Control Theory, emphasizing identity coherence and relational stakes.

Conclusions:

  • Student strategies, while effective for immediate conflict avoidance, may limit deeper cross-ideological engagement.
  • Effective dialogue practice requires fostering tolerance for identity-related discomfort.
  • Rediscovering commonalities is crucial for bridging political divides among students.