On 6-7 November 2017, a group of leading academics met at Cardiff University to explore the manifestations and causes of arrogance, polarisation, and closed-mindedness in public debate. You can find a Storify of the event here, which covers the conference highlights. Our speakers have also kindly consented to provide slides…
On Friday 20 October 2017, a group of leading academics met at the University of Bath to explore how we might identify arrogant behaviour in public debate. Our speakers have kindly consented to make slides from and/or a podcast of their presentation available online.
We are thrilled to announce the programme for “Arrogance and Polarisation in Debate”, a two-day international conference at Cardiff University. Political opinions in many Western-style democracies show signs of increasing polarisation. This has coincided with a change of tone in debates. Seemingly arrogant behaviours like shouting, mocking, dismissing or rudely…
On Friday, 20 October we will welcome a group of leading academics for a second ‘Changing Attitudes in Public Discourse’ workshop. This workshop is by invitation only, but podcasts of the talks will be made available on this site following the workshop. To receive email updates, please subscribe using the…
6-7 November 2017, Cardiff University Political opinions in many Western-style democracies show signs of increasing polarisation. This has coincided with a change of tone in debates. Seemingly arrogant behaviours like shouting, mocking, dismissing or rudely interrupting other people during discussions seem more frequent and widespread. This two-day international conference brings…
On Monday 22 May 2017, a group of leading academics met at Cardiff University to explore how we might develop categories to code arrogant behaviour. Our speakers have kindly consented to make slides from and/or a podcast of their presentation available online.
On 6-7 November 2017 we will host an international conference designed to bring together speakers from philosophy and psychology to explore arrogance, dogmatism and close-mindedness in debate. More details and call for participation to follow.
On Monday 22 May we will welcome a group of leading academics to discuss how we might code for behaviours such as arrogance.
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One of the common labels used to condemn the other side is ‘dishonest.’ They are a bunch of liars. Or cheaters. Or deceivers. Don’t trust anything they say. We see this kind of rhetoric in political debates especially, but it shows up all over the place, including in discussions of religion and science.
