MEDIA
Podcasts and Other Appearances
The Open Mind, PBS, "Are Polarized Resentments Calming?" February 2023
Science Communication, from CampusIL, "Recommendations for Science Communication with Policymakers Based on a U.S. Research Study," January 2022.
Can He Do That?, from the Washington Post, "Trump and science: An erosion of our institutions, in public and behind the scenes," October 28, 2020
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The Science of Politics, from the Niskanen Center, "When Liberals and Conservatives Use Genetics to Explain Human Difference," June 6, 2018
Popular Writing
Monkey Cage/WaPo, "Sanders and Bloomberg want to redistribute wealth. Most millionaires and billionaires don’t" (with Marko Klasnja and Gonzalo Rivero). February 17, 2020
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Monkey Cage/WaPo, "How worried are you about an impending trade war? That might depend on what your fellow party members think" (with Ben Toff), July 12, 2018
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USApp/London School of Economics, "Left-right disagreement over whether people are 'born gay' is both a cause and consequence of polarized gay rights attitudes," Feb 22, 2016
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U.S. News & World Report, "Science Denial is Bipartisan," Apr 6, 2015
Monkey Cage/WaPo, "A scientific perspective on politics and science," Feb 23, 2015
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Monkey Cage/ WaPo, "Comment threads are messy, but so is democracy." Dec 18, 2014
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USApp/London School of Economics, "Newspaper-based bloggers and commenters are far less polarized and more civil than their independently-based counterparts," Nov 19, 2014
Selected Media Mentions
The New York Times, "How We Think About Politics Changes What We Think About Politics," by Thomas B. Edsall, August 2022
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Science Magazine, "Want to get a politician to listen to science? Here's some advice," February 2019
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Psychology Today, "Anger Exacerbates Political Bias," by Bobby Azarian, September 2018
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New York Magazine, "The ‘Spiral of Silence’ Theory Explains Why People Don’t Speak Up on Things That Matter," by Olga Mecking/Science of Us, March 2017
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ProPublica, "What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism," by Eric Umansky, December 2016
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The New York Times, "The Eternal Return of Unenlightened Despotism," by Thomas B. Edsall, August 2016
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Vox, "The rise of American authoritarianism" by Amanda Taub, March 2016
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The Atlantic, "The Republican Party's White Strategy," by Peter Beinart, July/August 2016
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Newsweek, "Why Trump Won't Be Easy for the Dems to Beat," by Matthew C. MacWilliams, February 2016
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Science, ScienceInsider blog, "Politics, science, and public attitudes," by Jeffrey Mervis, February 2015
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Mother Jones, "New Study Says Conservatives React More Strongly to Insults Than Liberals," by Kevin Drum, October 2013
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The Wilson Quarterly, "Your political views affect your beliefs about genetics," Fall 2013