When you share your favorite Spotify playlist with your friends, you aren't just sending musical vibes; you may be revealing something about your political attitudes.
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2025
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If people do not observe inequality, they are less likely to favor policies that redistribute wealth, such as taxation—but they are also more satisfied with their lot, according to online experiments involving 1,440 US-based ...
Economics & Business
Nov 25, 2025
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Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people—perhaps a surprising number—look to the sky and see government plots and wicked ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2025
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Political systems become polarized when internal unity within groups strengthens and the divide between them deepens. As polarization intensifies, societal tensions can grow, making it difficult to find compromises. The intensity ...
Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2025
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American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation's founding. Chief among them is the "pick one" plurality voting system—also called winner-take-all—used ...
Political science
Dec 2, 2025
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Most Canadians have access to workplaces that are safe, promote health and autonomy and, most importantly, are protected by the law. But for people in criminalized professions, including sex work, it's a different story.
Political science
Nov 10, 2025
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Islamophobia in Western Europe is driven far more by anti-immigrant nativism and authoritarian attitudes than by religious belief, new research from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) shows.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2025
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Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of their purported ideological bias. These funding cuts were further exacerbated ...
Education
Nov 18, 2025
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Few workers face more scrutiny than professional athletes. Every movement is measured, every outcome quantified, and every performance evaluated against objective standards. So when UC Berkeley Haas researcher Tim Sels wondered ...
Economics & Business
Nov 19, 2025
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Mass shootings can spur higher voter turnout in nearby communities, but the effect is highly localized and doesn't appear to change how people vote for president, according to new findings from researchers at the University ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2025
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