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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Political fervor in the United States is at its peak as the end of the 2012 Presidential Election approaches, and APS Fellow Jonathan Haidt, from New York University’s Stern School of Business, has been patiently
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How Voters Really Decide
APS Fellow Jonathan Haidt explains how the science of moral judgment can shed light on voter behavior, political ideology, and compromise.
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Study of the Day: When Teamwork Isn’t Democratic, Everyone Benefits
The Atlantic: PROBLEM: Though many believe that equality within a team is important, does this flat power structure really improve a group’s performance? METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Richard Ronay randomly assigned 138 undergraduate students to
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Rethinking Rage in the Middle East
In September of last year, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas petitioned the United Nations for full membership in the world body. For many Palestinians, this event was a potent and long-overdue symbol of their statehood, a
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Diversity Makes Better Science
I’m honored to co-author this column with my colleague and friend Carol Lee. Among Carol’s many honors is having been President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). – DLM It’s not news that minorities
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Why Republicans and Democrats Can’t Feel Each Other’s Pain
TIME: Shakespeare asked rhetorically whether Christians and Jews are not “hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer?” The
