Brandon McMurtrie

Brandon McMurtrie is a PhD student in psychology at Massey University, where he studies political polarization. He is also a keen Substacker, X-user, and hunter. We talked to him about polarization; whether the way we"re currently talking about mental health might have some downsides; psychological research on left- (and right-) wing authoritarianism; and why he goes hunting. Pew Research on polarization in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/... Costello et al. on the traditional political spectrum: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri... Brandon"s piece on "identity satiation": https://backcountrypsych.substack.com... Steven Pinker on the American Psychological Associations" guidelines: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/op... Quadrant piece on authoritarianism research: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/unca... Jesse Smith, "Old wine in new wineskins": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... For more links, see the YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MTXAgF1MTs&t=7s