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Blog / Symmetrical Politics, Asymmetrical Marginalization

March 14, 2022 / Manuel Galvan /

Similar tendencies on the political left and right have different consequences on marginalized communities.

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Blog / How (Not) to be (Mis)informed

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 / Samantha Abrams /

Misinformation is spreading faster than ever in the digital age. Research in psychology can help explain why conspiracy theories are so popular, and how we can stop them in their tracks.

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Blog / A Tale of Two Political Narratives About Racial Inequality

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 / Manuel Galvan /

Conservatives and liberals offer differing views on the causes of racial inequality. What does the experimental evidence say?

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Discrimination Politics Psychology Racial inequality Racism

Blog / Get Out (of the lab) and Vote

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 / Allison Smith /

STEM students seem to be turning out to vote less than their politically engaged peers. Let’s break down what this means.

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Blog / Inequality (Un)Awareness

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 1

It seems that in this polarizing era, two things unite us: our preference for more equality and our ignorance of the scale of current inequality.

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Blog / How to Advocate for Science

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017 / Edhriz Siraliev-Perez /

  From the careful planning of experiments to the more mundane mixing of coffee, milk, and sugar – or milk, then coffee, no sugar – science is part of our…

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Blog / Why Aren’t Politicians Talking About Science, and Should We Care?

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 / Sarah Vick / 1

With two months to go before election day, we’ve already seen numerous candidates in numerous debates.  It seems like politicians will debate everything…except science. Science is all around us, and…

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