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Vol. 115, Issue 4, Pages 500-505
Trust between citizens and the institutions that govern them is essential for effective policy, especially in public health. Across the world, higher levels of trust in government…
I will describe how a fraudulent paper developed and offer insights into the institutional changes that are needed. I was a co-author on a paper described as a “clusterfake” due…
As threats to democracy endanger the rights and freedoms of people around the world, scholars are increasingly interrogating the role that organizations play in shaping democratic…
Vol. 386, Issue 6719, Pages eadh4764
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments…
Trust in nonpartisan news is essential to civil society—but is declining in the United States. However, language that demonstrates active engagement with opposing views may build…
Vol. 11, Issue 2, Pages 84–90
In our Harvard Business Review article published on February 28, 2023, “What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed,” we unveiled the pivotal factors distinguishing…
Vol. 10, Issue 23, Pages eadn2555
Over 30,000 field experiments with The Washington Post and Upworthy showed that readers prefer simpler headlines (e.g., more common words and more readable writing) over more…
Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior. In the United States, the vast bureaucracy of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is almost entirely…
Vol. 10, Issue 2, Pages 30-67
Paying reparations to Black Americans has long been contentiously debated. This article addresses an unexamined pillar of this debate: the United States has a long-standing social…
Vol. 35, Issue 2, Pages 23-39
The world is witnessing a loss of faith in both capitalism and democracy, which seemed nearly unimaginable just a generation ago. Many blame “the other party.” Others blame…