Tag: Political polarization
Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life...
Rebecca Dyer, Hamilton College and Keelah Williams, Hamilton College
Political polarization can be reduced when people are told to...
Ads, food and gambling galore − 5 essential reads for the...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
On Sunday in Las Vegas, the Kansas City Chiefs will be looking to win their...
Name-calling in politics grabs headlines, but voters don’t like it –...
Beth L. Fossen, Indiana University
Spending on political advertising is setting records in the midterm elections. But evidence shows...
Can Joe Biden ‘heal’ the United States? Political experts disagree
Arie Kruglanski, University of Maryland and Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University
Editor’s note: When Joe Biden becomes president on Jan. 20, 2021, he will lead...
3 reasons for information exhaustion – and what to do about...
Mark Satta, Wayne State University
An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook...
Fox News viewers write about ‘BLM’ the same way CNN viewers...
Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
It’s no secret that U.S. politics has become highly...
Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific...
Randy Stein, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Alexander Swan, Eureka College, and Michelle Sarraf, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The Research Brief is a short...
Here’s what happens when political bubbles collide
Alexander J. Stewart, University of Houston and Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
Social media has transformed how people talk to each other. But social...