Experiments exploring the effects of group discussion on attitudes, jury decisions, ethical
decisions, judgments, person perceptions, negotiations, and risk taking (other than the …

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social
media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like …

A longstanding problem in the social, biological, and computational sciences is to determine
how groups of distributed individuals can form intelligent collective judgments. Since …

An “illuminating” study that reveals the different ways social change occurs—for readers of
Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow (The New York Times) How does social change …

What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law? In this text, Cass Sunstein
attacks the increasingly influential Precautionary Principle--the idea that regulators should …

" In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the
greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is …

This chapter discusses the phenomenon of group polarization and explores some of its
implications for deliberation generally and deliberative democracy in particular. It also …

Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the
time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists …

'In using this term, we do not intend to venture anything especially controversial about the
actual or appropriate grounds of judicial decisions. As will be clear, we measure" ideology" …

Introducing social psychology: An analysis of individual reaction and response. Introducing
social psychology: An analysis of individual reaction and response. Citation Tajfel, H., & Fraser …