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 …

We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and
relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of …

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

The political landscape in the US and many other countries is characterized by policy
impasses and animosity between rival political groups. Research finds that these divisions …

Both liberals and conservatives accuse their political opponents of partisan bias, but is there
empirical evidence that one side of the political aisle is indeed more biased than the other …

Many topics that scientists investigate speak to people's ideological worldviews. We report
three studies—including an analysis of large-scale survey data—in which we systematically …

How do protest actions impact public support for social movements? Here we test the claim
that extreme protest actions—protest behaviors perceived to be harmful to others, highly …

Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that
poisons our politics? We don't live in a 'post-truth'society—but a 'myside'society in which no …