Baron H., et al, “Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization,” Political Behavior (October 16, 2024). [Read].

Bailey M. Oliver-Blackburn and April Chatham Carpenter, “But I don’t know if I want to talk to you,” Journal of Applied Communication Research (July 13, 2022). [Link]

Campbell, Emily B. 2025. “Rehearsing Civility: Bridgebuilding in Polarized America.” Philosophy and
Society 36 (1): 119–138. [Link].

Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, Marie Schenk, and Christopher Woods, “Depolarizing Within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops,” OSF Preprints (May 9, 2023). [Link]

Braver Angels 2020-2021: Depolarizing During the Pandemic

Braver Angels Evaluation Team 2022 [Link]

Justin Eckstein & Harry Weger (08 Sep 2025): The citizen questions model
for redesigning political candidate debates, Journal of Applied Communication Research [Link]

Francesca Gino, Julia Minson, and Jeff Huizinga,” Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics,” Harvard Business Review (March 9, 2020). [Link]

Hannah Baron, et. al, Can Americans Depolarize? Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization (March 31, 2021). [Link]

Participant-Identified Effects of Better Angels Experiences

Braver Angels Evaluation Team

October 2019 [Link]

History Camp : Pre-Post Survey Analysis

The College Board

September 2018 [Link]

Braver Angels 2020 – 2022 Overview: Report on Workshops and Events [Link]

Event Evaluations:  2024 report (for 2023)

• • The BA 2024 Report, Part 1 

  • In addition, here are some data visualizations, suitable for printing or sharing via social media and electronic communications. There are three “pages,” with a common backside for each that has a QR code to the summary report:

    • BA Key Findings 2024 (page 1)

• • • BA Key Findings 2024 (page 2)

    • BA Key Findings 2024 (page 3)

    • BA Key Findings 2024 (back)

Braver Angels 2022-23 Report: 

• • BA 2023 Report Summary: 4-page overview (printer-friendly, mobile friendly) 

  • BA 2023 Report: 19 pages of information that doesn’t include all the demographics or event-specific data

  • BA 2023 Report Extended: 53 pages of information, including 20+ pages of appendix data, most useful for researchers or people interested in the background behind the evaluation

• Braver Angels 2020-2021 Report: Depolarizing During the Pandemic (January 2022): Executive Summary; Full Report; Extended Report. 

• Evaluation of Red/Blue Workshop by external researchers (2021): Policy Brief

• Participant-Identified Effects of Better Angels Experiences (October 2019): Full Evaluation Document and One-Pager

• College Board History Camp Pre-Post Survey Analysis (High School Debates, September 2018): Powerpoint Summary 

• Strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the political divide – an analysis of the Red-Blue workshop and its training (2022)

Bridging the divide on climate solutions: Development, implementation, and evaluation of an online workshop for climate volunteers (2022)

2024 Braver Angels Evaluation