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Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work.

A new study suggests that framing the issue in terms of American values holds promise for motivating people across the political spectrum.

Clever new set of experiments by Blanchar, Eidelman, & Allen (2024) showing that people use double standards when evaluating alternatives to the status quo www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

Frontiers | Social change requires more justification than maintaining the status quo

Three studies demonstrate that, all else being equal, the threshold for justifying social change is higher than the threshold for maintaining the status quo....

Both-Sideology Endangers Democracy and Social Science. There. I said it. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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In social psychology these days it is commonplace to read or hear that liberal-leftists and conservative-rightists are every bit as “moral”; prejudiced and intolerant; susceptible to misinformation, ...

Link to the article itself: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals’ and Conservatives’ Belief in Climate Change

Psychology study offers messaging roadmap for changing attitudes on environmental issues and policies

"Polarizing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on system justification: A natural experiment involving New York City college students." spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... New article with Eduardo Rivera Pichardo & Sushmeena Parihar

New open access article with Debora de Oliveira Santos on ideological asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies rdcu.be/dMuZR

Liberal-conservative asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies are partly explained by psychological differences in a nationally representative U.S. sample

Communications Psychology - In a nationally representative survey in the United States, conservatives were less supportive of democratic norms such as political equality and legal rights and...

New open access article with Ian Cropley: "A social prospect theory of intergroup relations explains the occurrence of incremental progressive social change" www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

Survey Finds Widespread Support for Evanston Reparations Program  www.norc.org/research/pro...

Northwestern University Reparations Research Collaborative | NORC at the University of Chicago

Studying attitudes toward Evanston’s reparations policy