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Researchers Examine Impact of 'Green Politics' on Recent National Elections
October 12, 2011 — Democrats who took "green" positions on climate change won much more often than did Democrats who remained silent in 2008 and 2010, according to researchers. Republicans who took "not-green" ... > full story -
Crowdsourcing Democracy Through Social Media
October 11, 2011 — Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 2003, and in such an environment the specter of violence ... > full story -
Hypothetically Tweaking: Research Shows Questions Can Influence Behavior, Promote Bias
October 6, 2011 — Hypothetically speaking, if someone told you that a hypothetical question could influence your judgments or behavior, would you believe ... > full story -
Labour or Conservative? It's All in the Eye of the Beholder, UK Facial Research Finds
October 6, 2011 — Scientists in the UK have uncovered specific facial characteristics which make Members of Parliament look like they belong to one of the two major political parties in ... > full story -
Study of Congress: To Tweet, or Not to Tweet, Is Unrelated to Being in the Hot Seat
September 26, 2011 — Study finds that electoral vulnerability doesn't influence whether members of Congress use Twitter and also explains why Republicans have a majority on ... > full story -
Study 'Changes Our Understanding' of Youth Voting Behavior
September 23, 2011 — Low-income youth are more apt to vote if they are engaged in political activism and influenced by friends and family, according to a new ... > full story -
'Silent Majority' Agrees With Me, Voters Believe
September 20, 2011 — We like to think that others agree with us. It's called "social projection," and it helps us validate our beliefs and ourselves. Psychologists have found that we tend to think people who are similar ... > full story -
Political Preferences Play Different Role in Dating, Mating
September 19, 2011 — Online daters are reluctant to use partisan politics to attract a potential mate, according to new research in the U.S. The study shows that singles are more likely to admit they are overweight on ... > full story -
Technology Funding Makes Climate Protection Cheaper
September 19, 2011 — Economizing on targeted funding, for example for renewable energies, makes climate protection more expensive -- as scientists have now calculated for the first time, using a complex computer ... > full story -
New Study Quantifies Use of Social Media in Arab Spring
September 14, 2011 — After analyzing more than three million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the ... > full story
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