Local weather patterns temporarily influence people's beliefs about evidence for global warming, according to research by political scientists at New York University and Temple University.
Read moreDetailsThe MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP), under the direction of co-principal investigators University of Chicago political scientist Cathy Cohen, and Joseph Kahne, professor of education at Mills College, has unveiled the findings of the largest nationally...
Read moreDetailsWhen it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.
Read moreDetailsSafer indoor sex work spaces provide important and potentially life-saving benefits to sex workers including reduced exposure to violence and HIV and improved relationships with police, according to a study published by the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the...
Read moreDetailsThe traditional Southern belief that men must defend their honor is alive and well but not just among men. A new study finds that both men and women in the Southern United States believe in responding aggressively – and sometimes...
Read moreDetailsAcademics have developed an online tool, Election Watch, which analyses the content of news about the US election by the international media.
Read moreDetailsFighting ability, largely determined by upper body strength, continues to rule the minds of modern men, according to a new study by Aaron Sell from Griffith University in Australia and colleagues.
Read moreDetailsA new national study suggests that adults who receive an inheritance save only about half of what they receive, while spending, donating or losing the rest.
Read moreDetailsRepublicans and Democrats are less divided in their attitudes than popularly believed, according to new research.
Read moreDetailsHistory holds many examples of how a handful or even a single determined individual has succeeded in gathering whole societies behind them and directing their fate. The commonly held view is that such groups will always prevail when they are...
Read moreDetailsGenerations of American women have turned to door-to-door sales when a male-dominated workforce and lack of education prevented them from entering the workforce. They were known as the Tupperware Lady or the Avon Lady as they showed off their newest...
Read moreDetailsSo much has changed since 1963, when Betty Friedan's influential The Feminine Mystique provoked a national discussion about the deep dissatisfaction women were feeling about the limitations of their lives. Many women came to believe that discrimination limited their opportunities,...
Read moreDetailsNearly everyone can recognize the stereotypical scene of construction workers catcalling women as being sexist, but both men and women tend to overlook the more subtle daily acts of sexism they encounter, according to a recent study from Psychology of...
Read moreDetailsThough 'variety is the spice of life' and 'opposites attract,' most people marry only those whose political views align with their own, according to new research from Rice University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Political scientists found that political attitudes...
Read moreDetailsResearch from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Bristol calls into question people's ability to form their own judgements about their preferred election candidate after finding voters could be heavily swayed by 'the worm' - a continuous...
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