recent research

More social science finds from Kevin Lewis:

•  I know it sometimes seem like leaders are self-serving egotists: but they may have more of a social conscience than the rest of us.
• Think the country is polarizing? It's just you.
• Republicans have long been credited (or accused) of campaigning to constituent emotions. It may be they can't help it.
• Celebrity endorsements may not change who you vote for, but they will affect how you feel about political parties.
• Political trust: a matter of media attention?
• Partisans tend to consume media through partisan lenses - but sometimes they can be caught off guard.
• Compared to letters to the editor, online comments run a longer gamut in terms of tone and opinion.
• Online deliberators - more male, more moderate, more negative and, in the end, less likely to convert deliberation into action.
• When our desires conflict with what we know we should do, desire wins out 17% of the time.
• Are machiavellian people machiavellian because they have the social skills to be so?
• Personalized persuasion gets academic.
• More evidence that going with your gut can often beat thinking. Or, more specifically, thinking like a Baysian.
• We've all experienced it. Now there's a study on how it's so much easier to make a choice for someone else than it is for ourselves.
• Policy makers like to talk about how people like lots of choices; but it may just be that - self-efficacious - policy makers like more choice.
• Be very wary of all the social psychology research above: most likely the researchers fudged their data to get the results they expected.