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Over the past half century, Republican leaders have had considerable success enlisting courts in their campaign to boost the party’s electoral prospects through the suppression of voting and the manipulation of election rules.

Reporting Partial Election Results Fuels Beliefs in Election Fraud because of the Cumulative Redundancy Bias

A new sociological study offers a surprising take on the state of American news: right-wing news media doesn’t just sit on the opposite end of the political spectrum from mainstream outlets—it operates more like a religion than a traditional news source.

Decades of mobilization preceded US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade

Study analyze Trump’s public criticisms of judicial rulings and Republican justices who do not always rule in his favor to highlight how court’s claim of independence is complicated by political science data showing judges often align with ideological leaning of party whose president appointed them.

Study shows that even a company well-prepared for a cyber-attack found experiencing a real ransomware incident was the only way to identify and fix crucial gaps in its security processes and internal rules

Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.

A novel research project has shown that areas with greater amounts of green space have a lower prevalence of police violence

Experiments show Americans perceive problems affecting outgroup members as less serious and more strongly oppose government aid in those cases

Turns out eye scans at 45 can reveal your risk for Alzheimer’s decades early

A study finds that opposition to critical race theory often stems from a lack of racial knowledge

Women subjected to domestic violence and abuse are often isolated

Study shows relationship between offering free hugs to strangers and light and dark personality traits

Donating money, even if small amounts, may improve depression, Chinese study finds.

Amazon is using AI to discourage unionization, including automating HR processes to control workers, and monitoring private social media groups to stifle dissent, according to a study of workers at a warehouse in Alabama

New Research: Digital Technology Fundamentally Transforms Holocaust Memory Preservation

Research found in comparison to those who had not been abused in childhood, adults who had experienced both childhood physical and sexual abuse had approximately double the odds of physical and mental health conditions…

Carl Jung's 1904 description of "manic mood" may have actually been adult ADHD

Verbal fluency predicts survival in old age, study finds: Verbal fluency showed more salient associations with mortality risk than did measures of perceptual speed, episodic memory…

The historically large gender gap in total housework time narrowed further this century, from a women-to-men ratio of 1.8:1 in 2003–2005 to 1.6:1 in 2022–2023.

A study examining the effects of harmine, a major component of ayahuasca, found that it produces no significant psychoactive effects in doses up to 500 mg

A case report describes a rare side effect: A 25-year-old woman developed sudden compulsive sexual behavior after increasing her escitalopram dose

Retractions and the politicization of science - Retracted COVID-19 articles have circulated widely on social media

Study finds long term use of methylphenidate in late adolescent and early adult individuals with ADHD does not cause cardiovascular dysfunction, based on Echocardiographic evaluation

A new study found that e-cigarette advocates (many with ties to Big Tobacco) dominate Twitter's tobacco policy discourse, amplifying anti-regulatory messages far beyond public sentiment.

A new study, which is the largest of its kind, has found misogyny not only perpetuates gender inequality but is also linked to a range of negative outcomes, including reduced economic productivity…

Older adults disproportionately hindered by touch screen interfaces (2023)

Cumulative indirect exposure to police violence incidents politically mobilizes Black Americans (outcomes: voting, attending protest or meeting)

Academic urban legends: spinach as a source of iron

Findings of a longitudinal study of 1,205 children suggest that classroom norm salience towards aggression may become more important in the later elementary school years and that children of higher-educated parents may be more able to adapt their behavior toward the classroom norm - OPEN ACCESS

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