People adapt to societal diversity
The team examined 22 years of psychological, sociological and demographic data from more than 338,000 respondents in 100+ countries. Continue Reading →
Category: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Popping the ideological bubbles of social media users
Andy Guess studies the intersection of politics and social media. Continue Reading →
Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know
McCarty argues that the outcome of the 2016 election was not as surprising as first thought. Continue Reading →
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Authors: Eli Berman, chair of economics at the University of California-San Diego; Joseph Felter, deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia; Jacob Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Continue Reading →
Mental health declining among disadvantaged adults
By B. Rose Kelly American adults of low socioeconomic status report increasing mental distress and worsening well-being, according to a study by Princeton University and Georgetown University. Between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, mental health Continue Reading →
Better decision-making for the planet
By Yasemin Saplakoglu We might think we have control of the mix of decisions we make during the day. But it turns out that our brain gives us subconscious nudges, preferring some choices over others. Continue Reading →
Historian and neuroscientist team up for podcast
By Yasemin Saplakoglu When history professor Julian Zelizer and neuroscientist Sam Wang started the podcast Politics and Polls prior to last year’s presidential election, they never dreamed it would still be going a year later. Continue Reading →
Better living through behavioral science
How the psychology of human behavior is helping tackle society’s biggest problems By Wendy Plump SUPPOSE someone approaches you on the street with the following proposition: You can receive either cash on the spot or Continue Reading →
Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
Authors: Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015 When engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade Continue Reading →
ROBERT KEOHANE receives James Madison Award in American political science
Robert Keohane, professor of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, received the 2014 James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The award, given once every three years, “recognizes an Continue Reading →
Wild birds: A trip to the market reveals species imperiled
THE SIGHT OF A SOUTHEAST ASIAN BIRD market rivals the din of one for being overwhelming. Thousands of wild-caught birds are packed into cages that hang from eaves and fill market stalls to the ceiling, Continue Reading →
Measles may weaken immune system up to three years
THE MEASLES VIRUS can lead to serious disease in children by suppressing their immune systems for up to three years, according to a study published in the journal Science on May 8, 2015. The study Continue Reading →
Princeton-Fung Global Forum focuses on global health
IN NOVEMBER, the annual Princeton-Fung Global Forum brought health experts together in Dublin to address the emergence of new diseases and challenges in an increasingly connected world. Case studies of “modern plagues,” including the Ebola Continue Reading →
Janet Currie investigates the building blocks of children’s success
By Michael Hotchkiss TRAINED AS A LABOR ECONOMIST, Janet Currie earned her doctorate at Princeton by studying strikes and arbitration. But as she began her academic career in the late 1980s, she shifted her focus Continue Reading →
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of psychology, emeritus, and a Nobel laureate in economics, is one of 16 people who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest civilian honor in the United Continue Reading →
Study casts doubt on fairness of U.S. democracy
AFFLUENT INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS CORPORATIONS have vastly more influence on federal government policy than average citizens, according to research by Princeton University and Northwestern University. The researchers used a data set comprised of 1,779 policy Continue Reading →
A farewell to arms? New technique could aid nuclear disarmament
SCIENTISTS at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are developing a system to verify the presence of nuclear warheads without collecting classified information, as a step toward the Continue Reading →
Fragile families, fragile children
Relationships are complicated in the best of times, but even more so for unmarried parents and their children. Children born to unmarried parents encounter considerable instability in their family life when their biological parents end Continue Reading →
The rising cost of health care: Students examine policy solutions
With health care costs soaring, opinions abound on the best way to control costs without sacrificing patient outcomes. This past academic year, as part of their senior thesis research, several top students from the Department Continue Reading →
Race and incarceration rates: Student researcher explores solutions
African Americans made up 40 percent of incarcerated individuals in the United States in 2012, despite being only 13 percent of the American population, according to the United States Census Bureau. Danielle Pingue, Class of Continue Reading →
The social network: Program combats bullying
New laws and policies to address harassment and intimidation in schools are sprouting up in every state. But can laws and polices put a stop to bullying, or do students play a role? Psychologist Elizabeth Continue Reading →
Immigration policy is ripe for reform
Family unification provisions enacted in the 1960s have contributed to population aging in the United States, according to an analysis by Marta Tienda, an immigration and policy expert at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Continue Reading →
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