Political Psychology

Is the field of social psychology biased against political conservatives? There has been intense debate about this question since an informal poll of over 1,000 attendees at a social psychology meeting in 2011 revealed the group to be overwhelmingly liberal....

Only a small minority of women who have had an abortion regret their decision, according to new research published in PLOS One. “Results from this study suggest that claims that many women experience abortion decision regret are likely unfounded,” the...

A recent CDC report calls into question the widely reported belief that Black fathers are more absent in their children's lives than White fathers - showing that while more Black fathers live apart from their children, they are just as...

A large majority of Americans--including gun owners--continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins...

A new nationwide study reveals that the kind of cities that attract college graduates has changed since the 1990s. In the 1990s, grads were moving to cities with fast-growing "smart" industries in fields like high tech, the study found. But...

Beatles versus Rolling Stones. Ironman versus the Incredible Hulk. Deep dish versus thin crust. Such differences of opinion among family and friends rarely end in serious squabbles. Let the conversation turn to political parties, however, and lively disagreements can become...

A study of global media reporting on the activities of the ‘hactivist’ group Anonymous has revealed that the press generally portrays them as simple pranksters – even though the vast majority of their operations are motivated by the defence of...

Newly published research casts doubts on the link between women's menstrual cycle and their political views, suggesting the association is "weaker or less reliable than previously thought." Widely-reported research published 2013 in Psychological Science found that women’s menstrual cycle influenced...

American politics has grown so polarized in recent years that there's hardly any cooperation at all across the aisle, but the process that brought us here started long ago. Disagreements have been growing exponentially since the 1950s, according to a...

It is estimated that nearly one in three American women will have an abortion by age 45.  But the debate over a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy still rages on in the United States, decades after the Supreme Court's contentious Roe v....

A new study shows that discrimination of gay and lesbian job seekers is commonplace within both private firms and the public sector in the UK. The research, carried out by Dr Nick Drydakis of Anglia Ruskin University and published by...

In many instances, we must make broad inferences about others based on limited information. Often when we meet someone briefly we may already believe we know what their personality is like—we might have an idea how friendly, intelligent, or trustworthy...