Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) is a theory of life-span development grounded in the
uniquely human ability to monitor time. SST maintains that the approach of endings …

Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people's information
processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and …

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Concerns about public misinformation in the United States—ranging from politics to science—
are growing. Here, we provide an overview of how and why citizens become (and …

This paper makes the case for immediate planning for a COVID-19 vaccination uptake
strategy in advance of vaccine availability for two reasons: first, the need to build a …

There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by
creating “echo chambers” that insulate people from opposing views about current events …

Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

Educators have been increasingly concerned with what can be done about “post-truth”
problems—that is, threats to people's abilities to know what is true—such as the spread of …

We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-
checking and fake news detection. We compare the language of real news with that of satire …