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Constructive Disagreement Project

Cutting-edge research to help people collaborate through the toughest disagreements.

The Constructive Disagreement Project, led by Professor Julia Minson, tests and disseminates low cost, scalable interventions to support constructive engagement with opposing views. Their research seeks to find ways to increase understanding and reduce animosity across lines of disagreement in today’s hyperpartisan and polarized world.

The Constructive Disagreement Project’s research lab is a group of interdisciplinary researchers from different parts of Harvard University and around the world interested in conflict management, negotiations, and communication. The lab produces highest quality empirical research on the psychology of disagreement, studying how people engage with opinions, values, and judgments that conflict with their own.

The team engages with policy and practice by leveraging research from the behavioral sciences to create and test cutting edge interventions to help people disagree effectively in personal, professional, and civic spaces.

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A Smarter Way to Disagree
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A Smarter Way to Disagree

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Julia Minson
Julia Minson

Julia Minson

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Heather Sulejman

Heather Sulejman

Managing Director of the Constructive Disagreement Project

See the full list of Constructive Disagreement Lab members, including affiliated Harvard PhD students, at https://www.juliaminson.com/lab

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