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October 7, 2020
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The Unintended Consequence of Becoming Empathetic

Sep. 16, 2020 — Many people want to become more empathetic. But, these changes in personality may also lead to changes in political ...

Climate Engineering: Modelling Projections Oversimplify Risks

Sep. 9, 2020 — Climate change is gaining prominence as a political and public priority. But many ambitious climate action plans foresee the use of climate engineering technologies whose risks are insufficiently ...

Natural Disasters Must Be Unusual or Deadly to Prompt Local Climate Policy Change

Aug. 28, 2020 — Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study has found. ...

'Mental Rigidity' at Root of Intense Political Partisanship on Both Left and Right, Study Finds

Aug. 29, 2019 — New research shows that reduced cognitive flexibility is associated with more 'extreme' beliefs and identities at both ends of the political ...
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New Model Examines How Societal Influences Affect U.S. Political Opinions

Oct. 2, 2020 — Northwestern University researchers have developed the first quantitative model that captures how politicized environments affect U.S. political opinion formation and ...

Higher Narcissism May Be Linked With More Political Participation

Oct. 2, 2020 — A politically engaged electorate is key to any thriving democracy, but not everyone participates in elections and other political activities. New research found that people who are narcissistic may ...

COVID-19 Shapes Political Approval Ratings

Sep. 25, 2020 — During the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 created a rally effect around political leaders, according to new study. The rise of COVID-19 cases was associated with a 15- to 20-point boost in ...

COVID-19 Opens a Partisan Gap on Voting by Mail

Sep. 22, 2020 — A new study documents a growing divide in the United States on preferences for absentee ballots. Before the pandemic, there wasn't any difference in the rates at which Democratic and Republican ...

Political Ads Have Little Persuasive Power, Study Finds

Sep. 2, 2020 — Every four years, U.S. presidential campaigns collectively spend billions of dollars flooding TV screens across the country with political ads. But a new study shows that, regardless of content, ...

U.S. Political Parties Become Extremist to Get More Votes

Aug. 26, 2020 — New mathematical modeling shows that U.S. political parties are becoming increasingly polarized due to their quest for voters -- not because voters themselves are becoming more ...

When It Comes to Supporting Candidates, Ideology Trumps Race and Gender

Aug. 24, 2020 — Voters who express prejudice against minorities and women are still more likely to support candidates who most closely align with their ideologies, regardless of the race or sex of such candidates, ...

Affirmative Action Incentivizes High Schoolers to Perform Better, New Research Shows

Aug. 20, 2020 — Affirmative action is a contentious issue across the globe, hotly debated in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nigeria and Brazil, as well as in the United States. While the direct ...

Desire to Be in a Group Leads to Harsher Judgment of Others

Aug. 18, 2020 — In a time where political affiliations can feel like they're leading to tribal warfare, a research team has found that the desire to be part of a group is what makes some of us more likely to ...

Food Safety Model May Help Pandemic Management

Aug. 18, 2020 — No precedent exists for managing the COVID-19 pandemic, although a plan for working through major public food scares may point to the best ways of alerting and communicating with the ...

What the Rest of the World Can Learn from South Korea's COVID-19 Response

Aug. 10, 2020 — As the world continues to closely monitor the newest coronavirus outbreak, the government of South Korea has been able to keep the disease under control without paralyzing the national health and ...

Coronavirus: Social Distancing Accepted When People Understand Exponential Growth

June 29, 2020 — When people fail to see the need for restrictions on public life, explaining the exponential increase of infections creates greater acceptance for measures taken to slow down the infection rate, ...

Twitter Posts Reveal Polarization in Congress on COVID-19

June 24, 2020 — The rapid politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen in messages members of the US Congress sent about the issue on the social media site Twitter, a new analysis found. Using artificial ...

How Stimulus Dollars Are Spent Will Affect Emissions for Decades

June 10, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have led to a record crash in emissions. But it will be emission levels during the ...

How Is COVID-19 Affecting the Global Economic Order?

May 11, 2020 — COVID-19 has triggered a global financial crisis and is forcing states to develop rescue packages on a scale not seen before. The crisis has called into question the US dollar's hegemony and ...

Elections: Early Warning System to Fight Disinformation Online

Mar. 24, 2020 — A new project is an effort to combat the rise of coordinated social media campaigns to incite violence, sew discord and threaten the integrity of democratic ...

Public Health Leaders Call for Coordinated Communication Response to COVID-19

Mar. 5, 2020 — Public health leaders have called for informed and active public policy leadership to employ strategically coordinated health communication and outreach on COVID-19 and other emerging global health ...

Is It Possible to Reduce Political Polarization?

Feb. 6, 2020 — In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, an unusual experiment suggested that it might be possible to influence American voters to adopt less polarized ...

Fonts in Campaign Communications Have Liberal or Conservative Leanings

Jan. 24, 2020 — Yard signs for a local politician captured a researchers curiosity. The more people view a font as aligned with their ideology, the more they favor ...

Focus on Food Security and Sustainability

Dec. 11, 2019 — The number of malnourished people is increasing worldwide. More than two billion people suffer from a lack of micronutrients. Infant mortality rates are unacceptably high. Against this background, ...
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