Political Science News
November 24, 2024
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Oct. 3, 2024 — Government subsidies for business practices and processes should be approached with caution, even when they seem to be environmentally friendly, writes a group of scientists and economists. They argue that subsidies can alter market pressures, ...
Aug. 23, 2024 — What makes someone seem wise? People view wisdom through the lens of applying knowledge and thinking logically as well as considering others' feelings and perceptions, according to researchers who looked at perceptions of wisdom across 12 countries ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A new article concludes that current climate standards are not sufficiently incentivizing the big picture innovations necessary to deliver net zero, and must be expanded to include a company's broader influence on climate ...
Aug. 12, 2024 — The familiar terms 'climate change' and 'global warming' are more likely to resonate with people than other commonly used ...
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Oct. 17, 2024 — Research shows, during four recent major hurricanes, important public safety messaging was drowned out by more trivial social content--including people tweeting about pets, sharing human-interest ...
June 26, 2024 — New analyses find that public perceptions of scientists' credibility -- measured as their competence, trustworthiness, and the extent to which they are perceived to share an individual's values -- ...
June 6, 2024 — Current crises are distracting from the climate crisis and weakening support for climate action, a Europe-wide survey ...
May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while ...
May 9, 2024 — The division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — Most Americans report having personally experienced the effects of extreme weather, according to new survey data. An analysis finds that a reported ...
Mar. 7, 2024 — Researchers propose that governments apply a new method for calculating the benefits that arise from conserving biodiversity and nature for future ...
Feb. 1, 2024 — Both liberals and conservatives are more likely to believe that merit-based hiring is unfair after learning about the impacts of socioeconomic disparities, according to a new ...
Jan. 26, 2024 — An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented ...
Oct. 17, 2023 — People judge members of their own circles more harshly than they judge individuals from other groups for the same transgressions, new research has ...
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Oct. 25, 2024 — A new analysis shows that political polarization also poses significant health risks -- by obstructing the implementation of legislation and policies aimed at keeping Americans healthy, by ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — A new computational model analyzes the factors that help determine whether debunking efforts will persuade people to change their beliefs about the legitimacy of an ...
Sep. 20, 2024 — Using MRI scans of almost 1,000 Dutch people, researchers show that there is indeed a connection between brain structure and ideology. However, the connection is smaller than expected. Nevertheless, ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed and validated a new tool for comparing gender inequality among different regions of a country, highlighting links between gender inequality, wellbeing, and participation in ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Feb. 21, 2024 — There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Feb. 8, 2024 — In a survey involving a total of 2,472 respondents, researchers asked participants about nonpolitical and political moral behavior and nonpolitical and political moral tolerance. They found people ...
Sep. 25, 2023 — Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate change in the Paris Agreement. The agreement has no formal enforcement mechanism; instead, it is ...
Sep. 20, 2023 — New research examines the 'revolution' in the study of deforestation brought about by satellites, and analyzing which kinds of policies might limit climate-altering ...
Sep. 18, 2023 — Study finds that politics, public expectations fuel ...
July 20, 2023 — A new study finds that only a small number of U.S. policies consider ultra-processed foods, lagging behind countries such as Belgium, Brazil, and ...
July 13, 2023 — Research finds 'AI-tocracy,' China's increased investments in AI-driven facial-recognition technology, both help the regime repress dissent and may drive the technology ...
July 10, 2023 — When unethical behavior is criticized, demands are often met with defensiveness and denial. How can we overcome this reaction? New research demonstrates that criticism is more persuasive when it is ...
Mar. 21, 2023 — People might be more positive to the removal of fuel subsidies if told where the money would be spent instead. This has been shown in a study which investigated attitudes towards removing fossil fuel ...
Mar. 6, 2023 — The first global study to investigate how gender equality may be associated with life expectancy has found that both women and men live longer as it ...
Feb. 1, 2023 — People who share a political ideology have more similar 'neural fingerprints' of political words and process new information in similar ways, according to a new ...
Nov. 24, 2022 — In a new study, researchers find a significant societal impact of the pandemic beyond the domain of health and raise concerns about the ability of democratic societies to cope with future crises such ...
Nov. 17, 2022 — An artificial intelligence tool could help governments decide whether or not to bail out a bank in crisis by predicting if the intervention will save money for taxpayers in the long ...
Nov. 9, 2022 — In an experimental study, participants' first impressions of photos of strangers' faces were strongly influenced by disclosure of the stranger's political ...
Nov. 7, 2022 — Researchers show how major sociopolitical events can have global impacts on sleep that are associated with significant fluctuations in the public's collective mood, well-being, and alcohol ...