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Researcher sees ‘alarming’ risk of political violence in US
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As people have more difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction in the United States, they are more likely to feel news fatigue and avoid news altogether, according to a University of Michigan study.This post was originally [...]
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While it’s healthy to question what we see and hear in the media, those quick internet searches to fact-check news stories can unexpectedly backfire and lead people to believe false stories, according to the director [...]
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Immigration has become a defining issue in the 2024 elections and a major challenge in many U.S. cities. Over the past several years, wars and armed conflict, violent persecution and desperate poverty have displaced millions [...]
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Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and the University of Hohenheim present rhetorical tools that can help to reduce the polarization of discussions.This post was originally published on this site
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When a family or group of friends sit down to play a familiar game they’ve played many times before, they generally don’t need to refer to the rules—unless someone breaks them. The values of liberal [...]
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A recent study at the Hebrew University examines the impact of memorial days in Israel on national unity amidst political polarization.This post was originally published on this site
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Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights will soon begin hearings on antisemitism and Islamophobia. The process comes partly in response to claims that university and college campuses are unsafe spaces.This [...]
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Fifty years ago, Australian feminist Anne Summers denounced “the ideology of sexism” governing over so many women’s lives. Unfortunately, sexism is as lethal today as it was then.This post was originally published on this site
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A small team of political scientists, statisticians and data scientists from Harvard University, New York University, and Yale University, has found that by switching to a new method to better protect privacy, the U.S. Census [...]
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“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”This post was originally published on this site
