research finds

... from a trawl through 2013 research papers posted by Kevin Lewis:

• Messing with people's default categories of groups can promote tolerance.
• Having a sense of the meaning of life only helps you if it's stable over time.
• Explaining the decrease in human violence - since the dawn of history.
• Iraq and Afghanistan aren't the exceptions: forcing democracy rarely works.
• The price of voting, according to some economists, is about $10-$15. (Stefano Dellavigna et al)
• When politicians agree, it's not necessarily good for us. (Keena Lipsitz)
• One of the reasons citizens don't bother to vote may be because they know their representatives can't do much. (Ryan Carlin)
• An increasingly polarized media may be polarizing the most politically involved, but not the rest of us. (Markus Prior)
• ... And that may be because most of us tune out the polarized media. (Kevin Arcenaux et al)