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Political Science News
April 24, 2020
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'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 ... read more

Fake News Can Lead to False Memories

Aug. 21, 2019 — Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to a new study. The researchers suggest the findings ... read more

When More Women Make Decisions, the Environment Wins

Mar. 21, 2019 — When more women are involved in group decisions about land management, the group conserves more - particularly when offered financial incentives to do so, according to a new ... read more

Democracy Linked to Global Health Gains in Low-, Middle-Income Countries

Mar. 13, 2019 — A new study suggests that a better way to measure the role of democracy in public health is to examine the causes of adult mortality, such as noncommunicable diseases, HIV, cardiovascular disease and ... read more
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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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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, ... read more

US Public Views on Climate and Energy

Nov. 25, 2019 — Majorities of Americans say the federal government is doing too little for key aspects of the environment. And most believe the US should focus on development of alternative sources of energy over ... read more

Applying Biodiversity Conservation Research in Practice

Nov. 12, 2019 — One million species are threatened with extinction, many of them already in the coming decades. This unprecedented loss of biodiversity threatens valuable ecosystems and human well-being. But what is ... read more

Voters Agree With Polls That Favor Their Candidates

Nov. 7, 2019 — With the presidential election a year away, pollsters will barrage the country with poll questions to get the pulse of the voters about the ... read more

Politics: Being Attractive Helps, but It Isn't Everything

Oct. 15, 2019 — The question may be as old as democracy itself: are physically attractive people elected more often than less attractive opponents? Scientists have found out that looking good can at least partly ... read more

'Information Gerrymandering' Poses a Threat to Democratic Decision Making

Sep. 4, 2019 — Concern over fake news and online trolls is widespread and warranted, but researchers have identified another impediment to the free flow of information in social networks. The phenomenon, which they ... read more

Music Charts Are Increasingly Short-Lived

Aug. 21, 2019 — Cultural processes are increasingly short-lived, showing in addition a growing tendency toward self-organization. As a result, success is now governed by a universal law. This was discovered by the ... read more

How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News

Aug. 13, 2019 — Researchers analyzed thousands of climate change articles from 45 countries and territories around the world to determine how they frame the issue, and differences were revealed mostly by the wealth ... read more

It's Not You, It's the Network

Aug. 12, 2019 — The result of the 2016 US presidential election was, for many, a surprise lesson in social perception bias -- peoples' tendency to assume that others think as we do, and to underestimate the ... read more

How Picture Books Introduce Kids to Politics

July 29, 2019 — Researchers have analyzed political messages in some of the most popular picture books of the last several years to see how political topics are introduced to ... read more

Better Policies Around Toxic Chemicals Urged

July 12, 2019 — Researchers contend that failures to protect human and environmental health from toxic chemicals result from flawed governance, and lay out a plan for improved ... read more

Deportation Worries Fuel Anxiety, Poor Sleep, Among US-Born Latinx Youth

June 24, 2019 — A new study tracked the mental and physical health of US-born teenage children of Mexican and Central American immigrants in California in the years before and after the 2016 election. Nearly half of ... read more

Climate Undermined by Lobbying

May 28, 2019 — For all the evidence that the benefits of reducing greenhouse gases outweigh the costs of regulation, disturbingly few domestic climate change policies have been enacted around the world so ... read more

Do You Trust Politicians? Depends on How You Define Trust

May 15, 2019 — For decades, political scientists have measured the public's trust in the federal government consistently, using measures that are largely unchanged since the 1960s -- despite the momentous ... read more

Echo Chambers May Not Be as Dangerous as You Think, New Study Finds

May 13, 2019 — New research shows that collective intelligence -- peer learning within social networks -- can increase belief accuracy even in politically homogeneous ... read more

Public Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Use

May 6, 2019 — Nuclear power has been a part of the American energy portfolio since the 1950s, but for a number of reasons, the general public has long felt a significant dread about ... read more
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