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Voters’ Preexisting Opinions Shift to Align with Political Party Positions
The views expressed by political party leaders can change how individual voters feel about an issue, according to findings from a longitudinal study of voters in New Zealand.
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Binary Bias Distorts How We Integrate Information
When we evaluate and compare a range of data points, we tend to neglect the relative strength of the evidence and treat it as simply binary.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research articles exploring the role of crowd formation in online ratings and how the composition of police lineups influences eyewitness identification.
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Americans Exaggerate Their Home State’s Role in Building the Nation
Research on “collective narcissism” suggests many Americans have outsize notions about how much their home states helped to write the nation’s narrative.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring delay of gratification in children, visual darkness and perceived risk of disease, and the sunk-cost effect between people.
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People Make Different Moral Choices in Imagined Versus Real-Life Situations
The moral decisions people make in hypothetical scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior, researchers find.