Feb. 21, 2024 There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Feb. 8, 2024 In a survey involving a total of 2,472 respondents, researchers asked participants about nonpolitical and political moral behavior and nonpolitical and political moral tolerance. They found people ...
Mar. 6, 2023 The first global study to investigate how gender equality may be associated with life expectancy has found that both women and men live longer as it ...
Nov. 24, 2022 In a new study, researchers find a significant societal impact of the pandemic beyond the domain of health and raise concerns about the ability of democratic societies to cope with future crises such ...
Nov. 17, 2022 An artificial intelligence tool could help governments decide whether or not to bail out a bank in crisis by predicting if the intervention will save money for taxpayers in the long ...
Nov. 7, 2022 With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, people were plunged into a situation that required them to acquire information about an emerging scientific issue to assess the adequacy of government ...
Nov. 3, 2022 A new global COVID-19 study provides actionable recommendations to end the public health threat without exacerbating socio-economic burdens or putting the most vulnerable at greater ...
Oct. 31, 2022 There has long been an assumption that a connection exists between affective polarization and anti-democratic attitudes. A new study tests several depolarization interventions and finds that, while ...
Oct. 27, 2022 When groups of people need to reach a decision, they will often take a straw poll to test opinions before the official vote. New research shows that one specific voting method proved more effective ...
Oct. 13, 2022 An interdisciplinary team of researchers reports on how social norms -- 'patterns of behaviors or values that depend on expectations about what others do and/or think should be done' -- ...
Oct. 6, 2022 A new study identifies the political factors that allow some countries to lead in adopting cleaner sources of energy while others lag behind. By analyzing how different countries responded to the ...
Oct. 5, 2022 Trying to understand people we disagree with can feel like a lost cause, particularly in contentious political environments. But new research finds that valuing empathy across party lines can make ...
Sep. 15, 2022 New research shows that moral values predict regional differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates beyond structural, demographic and political barriers to ...
Sep. 7, 2022 A new study debunks the idea that wearing a mask to slow the spread of disease damages most everyday social ...
Aug. 26, 2022 Italian citizens who exercised their democratic right to vote in the 2020 constitutional referendum may have unintentionally contributed to the spread of COVID-19, finds a new study. However, ...
Aug. 23, 2022 Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation's most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American badly underestimates how much their ...
July 11, 2022 The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in anti-science attitudes, a new review ...
July 7, 2022 Financial incentives play an important role in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. New research, however, finds that not all financial incentives are created equal in the eyes of ...
June 9, 2022 Researchers examined mortality rates and federal and state election data for all counties in the U.S. from 2001 to 2019. The team found what they call a 'mortality gap' -- a widening ...
June 3, 2022 With the accelerating evolution of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in decision-making processes. Humans are becoming increasingly dependent on algorithms to process ...