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Mitt Romney’s Face Looks Different to Republicans and Democrats
Political bias can influence how people perceive the facial characteristics of a presidential candidate – even after seeing his face on TV thousands of times, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of
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Liberals, conservatives differ in estimating consensus within their group
MinnPost: As I’ve mentioned before in this column, recent years have seen an explosion of research into the psychological underpinnings of the ideological differences between liberals and conservatives. These studies have found in general that
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The Difference Between Republican and Democratic Brains
National Journal: What Democrats and Republicans don’t have in common goes far beyond the ballot box. Their personalities, like their core beliefs and policy ideas, are fundamentally different. Liberals are creative and curious, and tend
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Liberals Aren’t Like the Rest, or So They Think
Liberals tend to underestimate the amount of actual agreement among those who share their ideology, while conservatives tend to overestimate intra-group agreement, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
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Science Asks: Who’s More Pig-Headed, Dems or Republicans?
TIME: Forget the ancient Greeks’ advice. In this political climate, it’s more like “nothing in moderation, everything in excess.” Frank Bruni’s column in Monday’s New York Times highlights some of the cable-TV hyperbole that seems
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‘Belief superiority’: A reason for the political impasse?
The Washington Post: As we enter the second week of the government shutdown with legislators unwilling to reach across the aisle to find a compromise, it seems appropriate that a study on extreme political views
