Tightly overlapping identities can trigger defensiveness that makes us more susceptible to misinformation.

Social media feeds often amplify certain identities, quietly narrowing the information we're exposed to.

More distinct, independent identities build resilience against biased information processing.

What shapes what you believe? If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I talk a lot about social identity and how it influences how we process information. In a previous post, I described how having a diverse set of social identities can actually protect us against misinformation, a concept known in social psychology as social identity complexity.

The short version: When our identities heavily overlap with each other, a challenge to one (such as seeing factual information that makes........

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