Tag: cognitive dissonance

  • Nation & World

    Why isn’t the right more afraid of COVID-19?

    Don’t they know how contagious this virus is? Analysts discuss why some people ignore or reject the medical experts and science of COVID.

    8 minutes
    A crowd at a Trump rally.
  • Nation & World

    The fire this time

    As protests continue over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses the underlying social and cognitive factors at work in police violence against Black people.

    15 minutes
    Fire burns during protest of police killing of George Floyd outside White House.
  • Nation & World

    The art of political persuasion

    New political science research says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, political attitudes are a consequence of political actions, rather than their cause.

    5 minutes