A recent study published in Political Psychology suggests that a brief psychological intervention can reduce hostile attitudes between opposing political groups. By exposing people to surprising facts ...

People who lean politically to the right are more likely to fall for conspiracy theories than those on the left—but not for other types of false or misleading information. And regardless of ideology, ...

Individuals on the political right are more vulnerable to conspiracy theories than those on the left, according to a new study. This is the conclusion of psychologist Julia Aspernäs of Sweden’s ...

Few issues elicit near-unanimous agreement from both the political left and right. The virtually universal opinion that political anger permeates our country is one such issue. However, that shared ...

Oskari Lahtinen, Senior Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku in Finland, has developed validated tools for studying ‘woke’ attitudes on both the political left ...