Five strands of work, and how they connect.

Research

Five strands, one question: how people live together when the conditions keep changing.

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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.

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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.

Read more → 18 publications

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.

Read more → 39 publications

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.

Read more → 45 publications

The distance we keep between the animal and the meal.

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Most people care about animals.

Most people eat them.

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.

Read more → 8 publications

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The complete list

All 134 publications, with live attention scores, are listed together — including work that sits outside these five strands.

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