With over 4 billion people eligible to vote in elections, 2024 is the largest election year ever. At the same time, disinformation and polarization on social media pose unprecedented challenges to the democratic process.
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2024
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While social psychology has long been interested in learning more about how one's moral values relate to one's political views, most of the research to date has used quite the same perspective.
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2024
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Research work by renowned researchers is rated significantly better than work by lesser-known researchers, despite the same quality. This was the conclusion reached by a team of researchers led by Jürgen Huber from the Department ...
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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Democrats are killing and eating children. Vaccines contain Satan's DNA. Canada has a new queen who is really an extraterrestrial with special powers.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2022
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Both Republicans and Democrats regarded people with opposing political views as less moral than people in their own party, even when their political opposites acted fairly or kindly toward them, according to experiments my ...
Social Sciences
Feb 1, 2024
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Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy Institute and the BBC) have been examining the kinds of conspiratorial beliefs people have. ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2023
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While fighting over females is common among male animals in the wild, these fights rarely result in death. You can't pass on your genes when you're dead or badly injured. So why do the males in some colonies of the tiny spider ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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Most of us still call them UFOs—unidentified flying objects. NASA recently adopted the term "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAP. Either way, every few years popular claims resurface that these things are not of our ...
Social Sciences
Jul 17, 2023
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How do people successfully interact with those who are completely different from them? And can these differences create social barriers? Social scientists are struggling with these questions because the mental processes underlying ...
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2024
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There is an open question among pundits and researchers: Do more Americans believe in conspiracy theories now than ever before?
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2022
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