recent research

Kevin Lewis picks from January 2012:

• Remembering political events that never happened... especially if they fit your political predispositions. (Steven Frenda and friends)
• And conservatives and liberals are just as likely to shape facts to fit their preconceptions. (Dan Kahan) 
• Ideologues tend to exaggerate the moral extremity of their counter-ideologues. (Jesse Graham and friends)
• How it is partisans can agree on many issues but still hate each other. (Lilliana Mason)
• News on the internet is thought to divide partisans even further - but social media could push the other direction. (Solomon Messing and friend)
• Compromise is for sissies. (Michael R. Wolf)
• More evidence that growing partisanship may be a matter of sorting. (Gary C. Jacobson)
• ... leaving out those whose social and economic views don't align with either party. (Edward Carmines and friends)
• Finding the factors - and functions - of human intelligence. (Adam Hampshire and friends)
• Working with teams makes us smarter - even after we leave the team. (Boris Maciojovsky and friends)
• Any "prosocial" behavior humans have is not necessarily consciously prosocial. (Maxwell Burton-Chellew)
• We're more cooperative when we've had a chance to talk to others - even in our imaginations. (Rose Meleady and friends)
• This article says something about the relationship between money in politics and perceptions of corruption - though I can't tell what. (Daron Shaw and friends)
• It may be obvious to Hill watchers - but academics are still trying to demonstrate that earmarks and campaign donations are connected. (Michael Rocca and friend)
• Our overconfidence may be about projecting overconfidence. (Stephen Burks and friends)
• We have a prodigious memory for FB posts (though it's not clear why). (Laura Mickes and friends)