Polarization

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The term polarization has a number of associations in psychology:

• Polarization, in many disciplines, suggests the tendency to be located close to, or attracted towards, one of the two opposite poles of a continuum

In neuroscience

• Depolarization and hyperpolarization of neuronal membrane potentials.

In political psychology

• Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes

In social psychology

• Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
• Social polarization
  • Attitude polarization
  • Group polarization
  • Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups