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Strategies for preventing and reversing polarized online discourse
Leon Klingborg, Kenneth Mavor, Alexander J. Stewart
Political polarization poses a variety of challenges for modern democracies. Entrenched disagreements on policy can prevent constructive discourse and compromise, and high levels o…
Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Filippo Zimmaro, Jacopo Grilli, Mirta Galesic +1
Successful collective action on issues from climate change to the maintenance of democracy depends on societal properties such as cultural tightness and social cohesion. How these…
Group reciprocity and the evolution of stereotyping
Alexander J. Stewart, Nichola Raihani
Stereotypes are generalized beliefs about groups of people, which are used to make decisions and judgments about them. Although such heuristics can be useful when decisions must be…
The natural selection of good science
Alexander J. Stewart, Joshua B. Plotkin
Scientists in some fields are concerned that many, or even most, published results are false. A high rate of false positives might arise accidentally, from shoddy research practice…