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Engaging positively during the holidays

EAST LANSING -In an environment as polarized as today’s, spending the holidays around family you have political differences with can elicit emotions ranging from anxiety to dread — and exacerbate already complex family dynamics.

EAST LANSING -In an environment as polarized as today’s, spending the holidays around family you have political differences with can elicit emotions ranging from anxiety to dread — and exacerbate already complex family dynamics.

Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, associate professor of communication in the Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences and director of MSU’s Family and Communication Relationships Lab,studies communication processes in close relationships, with a particular focus on family.

Here, Dorrance Hall shares ways to approach conversations with emotional health in mind.

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