People are feeling hopeless and wondering, “How can we ever get to a place where collaboration, bipartisanship, and trust can be reestablished?” In an era where online comments have replaced in-person ...

Politicians who exhibit 'dark' personality traits such as narcissism, psychopathy or Machiavellianism contribute to increasing affective polarization among citizens. This is the conclusion of a new ...

Many factors are associated with individuals’ (socio)political beliefs and preferences (see, e.g., here, here, or here). This includes robust evidence that certain personality traits are related to ...

Today’s Republican Party and the “conservative” movement belong to Donald Trump. They are an extension of his mind, character, emotions, personality, desires, and impulses. This means that Trump’s ...

WILLIAMSBURG — There are specific personality traits that have a robust link to voting decisions, according to Xiaowen Xu, an assistant professor of psychology at William & Mary. Ahead of Super ...

City & State’s second annual March Political Madness tournament brought public officials together to put aside politics and instead pass the ball and score – all for a good cause. “When I played last ...

Two streams of research, culture war and system justification, have proposed that religious orientations and personality, respectively, play critical roles in political orientations. There has been ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American “For it must be cried out, at a time when ...

Artificial intelligence could be used to present precisely targeted messages to voters at scale, boosting the power of online political campaigns. How does ChatGPT work and do AI-powered chatbots ...

A combination of unemployment, loss of personal dignity, and exploitative political leadership is a recipe for social unrest ...

Today’s Republican Party and the “conservative” movement belong to Donald Trump. They are an extension of his mind, character, emotions, personality, desires, and impulses. This means that Trump’s ...