ERC Starting Grant · 2020
The Psychology of Public Policy: Inequality, Immigration and International Relations
To understand how modern democracies function, we must understand how mass opinion on public policy is formed, develops, and changes over time (i.e., its causes), and how it affects the social structure (i.e., its consequences). Research on public policy in economics, political science and sociology has revealed a puzzling pattern– people’s political attitudes often do not reflect objective reality or rational self-interest. Psychology has a long tradition of examining the social pressures, cognitive biases, and competing motivations that prevent people’s attitudes from aligning with objectivity and rationality. PSYPOL will extend these insights to the political domain, by examining the…
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