Across three separate experiments, I find that exposure to negative political information
continues to shape attitudes even after the information has been effectively discredited. I call …

The hippocampus has long been known to be a critical component of the memory system
involved in the formation and use of long-term declarative memory. However, recent findings …

Neuropolitics is the intersection of neuroscience and political science, and it has the
interdisciplinary goal of transforming both disciplines. This article reviews the past 20 years …

Although vignettes featuring hypothetical politicians are popular in survey experiments,
political scientists rarely explore the tradeoffs between realism and experimental control. In …

Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict.
There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual …

The hippocampus has been implicated in a diverse set of cognitive domains and paradigms,
including cognitive mapping, long-term memory, and relational memory, at long or short …

During communication, we form assumptions about what our communication partners know
and believe. Information that is mutually known between the discourse partners—their …

How do people form their political beliefs? In an effort to address this question, we adopt a
neuropsychological approach. In a natural experiment, we explored links between …

Understanding the mechanisms of effective communication may be advanced by knowledge
from social and cognitive neuroscience. We build on prior brain research that mapped …

Recent advances in understanding the functionality of the human hippocampus has led to a
number of proposals for how hippocampus may support a range of cognitive abilities …