New tool predicts who selects opposing political news beyond self-reports. Visual method reveals gaps between stated openness ...

A series of three experiments found that when people evaluate arguments on political topics, their prior beliefs about that topic are more important than the actual quality of those arguments. People ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information.

With new polls showing Zohran Mamdani holding a sizeable lead in the mayor’s race, he’s poised to become the city’s first Muslim mayor. But with most polls being wrong about the Democratic primary in ...

The study of complexity in political decision-making addresses crucial questions at the intersection of cognitive science, ...