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 ...

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

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, associate professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, gave a talk at Herbst Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 30, to showcase some research from his upcoming book, titled ...

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 ...

One often hears in conversations such questions as, what can one do with Classics and Philosophy, or Sociology and Political Science?