If you’ve ever tried to convince an opinionated relative to shift a political opinion, you were probably doing it wrong (and it probably didn’t work). “The person you’re talking with often has very ...

When you’re trying to persuade someone in a political argument, it’s hard not to be passionate about what you believe in. New research suggests, however, that swaying someone’s political views comes ...

In my last post about combating vaccine hesitancy, I wrote about how it’s important for us not only to understand people’s everyday moral concerns, but also to work on reframing our rhetoric to appeal ...

The moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt has shown that the moral foundations that undergird the political beliefs of conservatives and liberals are different from one another––that liberals tend to care ...

In my last post about combating vaccine hesitancy, I wrote about how it’s important for us not only to understand people’s everyday moral concerns, but also to work on reframing our rhetoric to appeal ...