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Group polarization is a means of a group to generate action. To generate a group needs to reach agreed [[SON]], and generate enough energy for action from its members. [[Conservative]] create this energy by facilitating [[group thinking]], and creating a mood of danger to the group [[FFFF]]. The feeling of danger, is usually created by bringing evidences from extreme events and groups that threatened the wale-fare of the members of the group members. These evidence, due to group thinking are unchallenged and therefore seems real and critical. This admixture of [[group thinking]] and constructing a state of need for action in face of a generated feeling of danger is producing a state of polarization.
See Cass R. Sunstein - Why Societies Need Dissent<ref>[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=441340 Sunstein, Cass R., Why Societies Need Dissent. Harvard University Press, September 2003]</ref>, and slso this article that suggest that social networks will create increase in group polarization<ref>[http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0603023.pdf Petter Holme and M. E. J. Newman, Nonequilibrium phase transition in the coevolution of networks and opinions, Physical Review E, 2006]</ref>