Five strands of work, and how they connect.
Research
Five strands, one question: how people live together when the conditions keep changing.
- 01 Polarization, radicalization and violent extremism 28
- 02 Misinformation, conspiracy beliefs, and AI 17
- 03 Acculturation and cultural change 39
- 04 Political psychology and intergroup relations 45
- 05 The psychology of meat consumption and human–animal relations 8
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What moves people toward political violence — and what holds them back.
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Strand 01
Polarization, radicalization and violent extremism
This strand asks how ordinary grievance hardens into the justification of political violence. The work spans 58 countries, several ideological milieus, and the full arc from the conditions that make violence thinkable to the interventions that make it less so.
Who believes what, why — and what artificial intelligence changes.
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Strand 02
Misinformation, conspiracy beliefs, and AI
This strand treats misinformation as a system rather than a personal failing: it asks who is susceptible and why, what the biography of a conspiracy believer looks like, and what happens when the machinery producing false claims stops being human.
The forgotten side of cultural contact — including the majority's.
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Strand 03
Acculturation and cultural change
Acculturation research has traditionally asked how immigrants change. This strand asks the other half of the question — how majority groups change too — and subjects the field's most repeated claims to the evidence they have rarely been given.
Where political attitudes come from, and how groups come to see each other as less than fully human.
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Strand 04
Political psychology and intergroup relations
The largest of the five strands, this work runs from the developmental and genetic origins of political attitudes, through the mechanics of dehumanization and prejudice, to the conditions under which hostile groups can still imagine peace.
The distance we keep between the animal and the meal.
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Strand 05
The psychology of meat consumption and human–animal relations
Most people care about animals and most people eat them. This strand studies the psychological work that keeps those two facts from meeting — and what happens to consumption when that work is interrupted.
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The complete list
All 133 publications, with live attention scores, are listed together — including work that sits outside these five strands.