Contemporary social fragmentation and political polarization: A dual-process approach

Hiroshi YAMA, Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

It is paradoxical that, although the awareness of human rights is growing after the World War II, we see the social fragmentation and the political polarization. To resolve the paradox, I propose a dual-process model which supposes the control of the reflective process on the intuitive process. In short, the reflective process works for the awareness of human rights on one hand, empathy from the intuitive system is left as modular and thus this narrowness produces the social fragmentation and the political polarization.