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The U.S. is experiencing unprecedented levels of political polarization, especially in terms of affective polarization, or feelings of dislike and distrust towards members of the opposing political party.  This winter, the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the...

 “The beauty and the terror of the internet,” social psychologist David Dunning tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, “is that there’s a lot of terrific information, but there’s also a lot of misinformation and sometimes outright...

The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR)– in partnership with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA)-- is embarking on a three-year project that will be the first systematic, national...

We are excited to formally announce that Mosi Ifatunji, assistant professor of African American Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a faculty associate in PRBA at the University of Michigan, has been awarded the inaugural James S. Jackson...

James Jackson spoke at the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research conference in April at the University of California, Davis. His comments were noted in The June 9, 2015 New America Media: Elders titled Older Black Lives Matter - Says Top Researcher Research...

The American Psychological Association just announced that Eric Dubow (Research Professor, RCGD and Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University) will be the next Editor of Developmental Psychology succeeding Jacque Eccles on January 1, 2016! Research...