Easy access to equipment, software, and platforms to create, distribute, and provide access
to fake news stories has exacerbated the problem of fake news, making for a large number …

To benefit from information provided by other people, people must be somewhat credulous.
However, credulity entails risks. The optimal level of credulity depends on the relative costs …

There is a considerable body of work across the social sciences suggesting negativity
biases in human attentiveness and decision-making. Recent research suggests that …

The Authoritarian Personality, which was published by Theordor Adorno and a set of
colleagues in the 1950s, was the first broad-based empirical attempt to explain why certain …

Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict.
There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual …

Political conservatism is associated with an increased negativity bias, including increased
attention and reactivity toward negative and threatening stimuli. Although the human …

The influence of political ideology on individuals' behavior and their endorsement of social
policies is pervasive, and its impact on their economic and social well-being is …

A core task for elected officials is to hold bureaucratic leaders responsible, but how do they
determine if public managers actually influence outcomes? We propose that partisan and …

Emerging research has begun investigating the neural underpinnings of the biological and
psychological differences that drive political ideology, attitudes, and actions. Here, we …

Based on the emotion-as-frames model and theories of political psychology, this study
examines how the emotional frames (anger, anxiety, sexual) of news on sexual assault are …