Exploring political behavior and polarization through the lens of social identity theory (SIT) provides insights into how individuals' self-concepts are shaped by their group memberships, influencing ...

Political ideologies now permeate nearly every aspect of human life. Recent psychological and demographic research suggests ...

A person's level of political engagement can be informed by myriad factors, from education to environment. Now, a new study—published in the journal Brain and led by Northwestern University and ...

Emotional states exert a profound effect on how individuals attend to, interpret and recall political information, thereby shaping subsequent civic engagement and decision-making. Discrete emotions ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

Electoral accountability refers to the mechanisms through which voters influence the decisions and performance of elected officials by rewarding or sanctioning them at the ballot box. Research in ...

Americans would give political opponents four extra months in jail and are more likely to free their allies following acts of political violence, research suggests. The two nationally representative ...

Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology?: Individual-Level Variation in Associations with “Left” and “Right” and Left-Right Self-Placement Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of ...

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CNN’s Brianna Keilar interviews Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA) - one of six Democratic lawmakers who President Trump accused of engaging in “seditious behavior, punishable by death” over their video ...