Over the past two decades, citizens' political rights and civil liberties have declined globally.
Psychological science can play an instrumental role in both explaining and combating the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global societal, economic, and social upheaval
unseen in living memory. There have been substantial cross-national differences in the …

The onset of the 2020 global COVID-19 pandemic led to a marked increase in positive
discussion of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in political and media circles. However, we do …

What makes voters prefer a certain type of politician? First, we argue that voters' trait
preferences follow a “desired leadership” principle. We show that citizens want the ideal …

The psychological study of ideology has traditionally emphasized the content of ideological
beliefs, guided by questions about what people believe, such as why people believe in …

Social liberals tend to be less pathogen-avoidant than social conservatives, a pattern
consistent with a model wherein ideological differences stem from differences in threat …

Individuals often face dilemmas in which non-cooperation serves their self-interest and
cooperation favors society at large. Cooperation is often considered the moral choice …

Purpose This research examines whether anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence (AI)
chatbots alters consumers' risk preferences toward financial investment options involving …

In the face of a slow and inadequate global response to anthropogenic climate change,
scholars and journalists frequently claim that human psychology is not designed or evolved …

Violent intergroup conflicts continue to be one of the most pressing issues of our time. One
key factor that instigates and perpetuates conflict is people's support for violence against the …