Cognitive distortions are associated with increasing political polarization.

Each CDS corresponds to a cognitive distortion of one or more of 12 types of cognitive distortions 23 , as detailed in the “Methods.” Analyses of overall CDS prevalence (see “Methods”) demonstrate a clear trend of increasing CDS prevalence from 2016 (in blue) to 2020 (in orange), as shown in Fig. 1 .

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The interaction term remained negative and marginally significant across iterations, suggesting this pattern is not due to sample size imbalance.

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