Resources to support your storytelling.

Entertainment can play an important role in reducing intergroup hostility and bias, humanizing partisan “others,” and shifting social norms around how we engage across lines of difference.

Resources

Content That’s as Good as Contact? Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Promise of Depolarization at Scale

Bridge Entertainment Labs Bibliography: The Effect of Narrative Media on Intergroup Prejudice and Polarization

Civic Alliance Storylines Toolkit

Shared Screens: Scripted Television’s Communal Space in a Polarized Nation

Can Popular Entertainment Save America? *

How Do Media Portrayals of Cross-Party Interactions Affect Viewers? Investigating the Effects of Norms for and Content of Cross-Party Engagement *

Black-ish *

Narrative Persuasion and Depolarization: Testing an episode of “The Conners” *

* Commissioned by Bridge Entertainment Labs

© 2022–2025 Bridge Entertainment Labs

All rights reserved. Disclaimer. Privacy Policy.

Site handcrafted by Deep Fried.