How We Live We are not very good at understanding people we disagree with.

Behavioral Economist, Daniel Stone, says people are consistently too pessimistic about their partisan counter-parts. On both sides, people tend to overestimate the other side’s extremism, hostility, interest in political violence and selfishness. And the most affectively polarized people make the biggest mistakes

"Stone's thesis is that partisans in America dislike people they disagree with excessively, for a variety of reasons, but that dislike is often driven by mistaken beliefs and incorrect assumptions. To find evidence for his thesis, he reviewed studies on the accuracy of people's beliefs about opinions held by embers of the other political party. And what he found might surprise you: We are not particularly good at understanding our opposition." - Isaac Saul Article: Why Do We Hate Each Other? Related Article: Your Political Rivals Aren’t as Bad as You Think – Here’s How Misunderstandings Amplify Hostility