New research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied suggests that people often overestimate their understanding of political facts. This tendency to be overconfident appears most ...

Prominent right-wing influencers including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson are claiming to be the victims of a fraudulent Russian political disinformation scheme exposed by the Justice ...

Amid widely shared concerns that social media makes people unhappy, spreads misinformation, and polarizes societies, researchers paid randomly selected participants to deactivate their Facebook ...

Leo Gugerty is affiliated with Braver Angels, a cross-partisan group that works to reduce political polarization by teaching skills of civil disagreement. I believe these reports are clearly ...

As a political scientist, I’ve long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I’m consciously limiting my time, attention and ...

A new study suggests that the average person may be far more aware of their own lack of political knowledge than previously thought. Contrary to the popular idea that people consistently overestimate ...