Studies show, for example, that triggering someone's "civic" identity can help them evaluate information more objectively. So someone who is fiercely political actually has the capacity to be more impartial once they are empaneled on a jury and see themselves as a "juror" 3/

So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/