Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

Misinformation occurs when people hold incorrect factual beliefs and do so confidently. The
problem, first conceptualized by Kuklinski and colleagues in 2000, plagues political systems …

Does affective polarization—the tendency to view opposing partisans negatively and co-
partisans positively—undermine support for democratic norms? We argue that it does …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

Political misperceptions can distort public debate and undermine people's ability to form
meaningful opinions. Why do people often hold these false or unsupported beliefs, and why …

This article investigates youth judgments of the accuracy of truth claims tied to controversial
public issues. In an experiment embedded within a nationally representative survey of youth …

“Social sorting” is a concept used by Mason () to explain the process by which individuals'
social identities grow increasingly aligned with a partisan identity, reducing social cross …

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-
racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation …

Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

Given the potential political and social significance of conspiracy beliefs, a substantial and
growing body of work examines the individual‐level correlates of belief in conspiracy …