Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

Rising partisan animosity is associated with a reduction in support for democracy and an
increase in support for political violence. Here we provide a multi-level review of …

Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Perceptions about others play an important role in sha** people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Despite over 50 years of messaging about the reality of human-caused climate change,
substantial portions of the population remain sceptical. Furthermore, many sceptics remain …

There is widespread concern that rising affective polarization—particularly dislike for
outpartisans—exacerbates Americans' anti-democratic attitudes. Accordingly, scholars and …

Scholars, policy makers, and the general public have expressed growing concern about the
possibility of large-scale political violence in the United States. Prior research substantiates …

Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

Do anonymous online conversations between people with different political views
exacerbate or mitigate partisan polarization? We created a mobile chat platform to study the …

Although political polarization in the United States is real, intense, and increasing, partisans
consistently overestimate its magnitude. This 'false polarization'is insidious because it …