In his poem The Scholars, the Irish Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) depicted academics as insular and tending to "think what other people think" (Yeats, 1962, p. 71). Of course, those of us who are in academia believe the opposite: We see ourselves as being nonconformists, individuals who do not follow the crowd. We see the worldviews of people outside academia but not ourselves as shaped by echo chambers. But perhaps such rosy assumptions about academia need to be questioned, particularly by psychologists focused on peace and conflict. This is because progress in both research and practice in the domain of peace and conflict requires the ability to be open-minded and to work across different types of boundaries-the opposite of being confined within echo chambers.
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