Despite the global presence of social media platforms, the reasons why people like and
share content are still poorly understood. We investigate how group identity mentions and …

Scholars have long argued that dehumanization causes violence. However, others have
recently argued that those who harm do so because they feel pressured or view violence as …

Although physician organizations across Western countries have consistently held that it is
unethical for physicians to participate in judicial executions, surveys indicate that up to 41 …

Recent, high-profile acts of partisan violence have stimulated interest among academics and
the public in the etiology of support for such violence. Here, we report the results of a study …

Dehumanization has figured prominently in intergroup discrimination and violence, which
has inspired sustained social-psychological inquiry. Over two decades, researchers have …

This study examines the relationship between respondents' vaccine hesitancy, reported
media consumption patterns, ideological leanings, and trust in science. A large-scale survey …

This reflection piece sheds light on expanded state violence in global narcotic governance,
offering valuable insights to perpetrator studies. It expands the focus by acknowledging the …

Can religiosity alter societal propensity for large-scale organized violence? We introduce
annual religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the shares …

The primary aim of this thesis is to perform a diachronic analysis of the linguistic techniques
used in the reports published on TASS. com about the invasion of Ukraine, to understand …

Can religiosity alter a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce
two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with …