For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along …

A dominant narrative is that aggression starts when self‐control stops–unchecked
aggressive impulses manifest in violence as self‐control fails to inhibit them. Yet this 'low self …

Recent scholarship has established that a majority of Americans will support the use of
nuclear weapons and violate the principle of noncombatant immunity when American lives …

Existing research into the psychological roots of political polarization centers around two
main approaches: one studying cognitive traits that predict susceptibility to holding polarized …

I shall discuss, from a personal perspective, research on risk perception that has created an
understanding of the dynamic interplay between an appreciation of risk that resides in us as …

Groups of people in pain evoke our empathic reactions. Yet how does one empathize with a
group? Here, we aim to identify psychological mechanisms that underlie empathic reactions …

Dehumanization is a topic of significant interest for academia and society at large. Empirical
studies often have people rate the evolved nature of outgroups and prior work suggests …

Abstract The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCB-15) is a reliable and valid measure of
conspiracist ideation, but it is also inefficient. At 15 items, the GCB-15 can take upwards of …

Dehumanization has figured prominently in intergroup discrimination and violence, which
has inspired sustained social-psychological inquiry. Over two decades, researchers have …

How do Americans' core beliefs about punishment, and their intuitions about which actors
deserve blame, shape attitudes toward the use of force against a hostile state? I apply …