I study the persuasive effects of slanted language, exploiting a ban on the politically charged
term “illegal immigrant” by the Associated Press (AP) news wire. My empirical strategy …

Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American
democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n= 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments …

Group threat theory has stimulated an impressive number of studies over the course of the
past several decades. Our review takes stock of this literature, focusing on core issues of …

Immigration policy can have important net scal e ects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But
mainstream methods to estimate these e ects are problematic. Methods based on cashow …

States are not only claiming the right to grant or deny entry to their territories but also
enforcing this right against non-citizens in ways that cause significant harm to these …

Blame is not only a cognitive process but also a social act of moral criticism. Such acts of
criticism often serve to correct a transgressor's behavior but can be costly—to the moral …

While the relationship between immigration and crime has been the focus of international
research, particularly in Europe and North America, less attention has been paid to different …

Disinformation emphasizing radical populist narratives may threaten democratic values.
Although extant literature has pointed to a strong affinity between disinformation and the …

Abstract Domain perspective reasoning refers both to students' recognition of authors'
domain perspectives during reading and students' abilities to draw on varied domain …

In the last several decades, social psychologists have identified several social and political
motives that undergird conflict between groups (eg, racial group conflict), and the conditions …