Posted on 09/10/2009 3:49:07 PM PDT by khnyny
Here is a link to the abstract of the academic paper Sunstein wrote called “The Law of Group Polarization” concernng this phenomenon. He uses trigger words like “polarization” and “cascading threshold”.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=199668
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