Polarization

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The term polarization has a number of associations in psychology:
 * Polarization, in many disciplines, suggests the tendency to be located close to, or attracted towards, one of the two opposite poles of a continuum

In neuroscience

 * Depolarization and hyperpolarization of neuronal membrane potentials.

In political psychology

 * Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes

In social psychology

 * Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
 * Social polarization
 * Attitude polarization
 * Group polarization
 * Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups