Give me your Christian, your female, your English-speaking with a good education? While not the words on the Statue of Liberty, these seem to be the kinds of refugees that the American public prefers—according to a new ...
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2019
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Ever wonder why there's so much bad news out there? Maybe it's because people find bad news more interesting than good news.
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2019
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As another election season heats up, researchers are engaged in a battle of their own over voter behavior: Can it really be swayed by whether the local college football team just won or lost?
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2015
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With concerns rising over a potentially contested presidential election next week, a new study by Stanford researchers suggests that worries over one type of election-day fraud are overblown: ballots cast in the name of dead ...
Political science
Oct 30, 2020
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Americans' support for government action on global warming remains high but has dropped during the past two years, according to a new survey by Stanford researchers in collaboration with Ipsos Public Affairs. Political rhetoric ...
Environment
May 8, 2012
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Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the "Doomsday clock" one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists said Tuesday.
Other
Jan 10, 2012
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Is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) an important tool for slowing climate change, or merely a way to justify the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels? I'm a social scientist who studies the politics of ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2023
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Candidates with lower-pitched voices may get more votes in the 2012 election.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2012
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Global concerns such as epidemics, wars and disasters weigh upon the minds of people around the world during every decade. But can a dominant global problem such as the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to neglect other urgent ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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Five social scientists holed up in an Amsterdam hotel for a week with the goal of reaching a scientific consensus on how people form stereotypes. Remarkably, they were encouraged by the fact that none of them actually agreed ...
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2020
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