…up — a rescue package or a bailout package, if it’s gun control or gun safety, pro-life or anti-choice. Since I first started on this, this has almost become the…
Expert Commentary
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In May 2013 the Pew Research Center released a survey that showed the significant gap between the American public’s beliefs about levels of gun violence…
Expert Commentary
…shooting game used either a pistol-shaped or a standard controller. Next, participants shot a realistic gun at a mannequin. Participants who played a violent shooting game using a pistol-shaped controller…
Expert Commentary
…community, testing this through an experiment conducted with 541 randomly sampled vacant lots in Philadelphia. The lots were randomly assigned into treatment and control groups. The control group consisted of…
Expert Commentary
…as well as the scientific content of information.” Keywords: cognition, guns, nuclear power, global warming, crime, climate politics, cultural cognition, climate change, gun control, nuclear power, risk, public opinion…
Expert Commentary
…students use a risk-averse strategy. They choose safe topics where there is a lot of information available. Think Gabby Giffords and gun control. They rely on the same tried-and-true sources…
Expert Commentary
…the Iraq War; the American Legion and the Iraq War; the Parent Teacher Association/Organization and education; and the NRA and gun control. By sorting among the citizens surveyed who have…
Expert Commentary
…voters would support a sales tax increase to help fund school construction. Researchers frequently conduct national polls to better understand how Americans feel about public policy topics such as gun…
Expert Commentary
…for information on mental illness, suicide among veterans and firearm violence. For more on the gun policy debate and its relationship to these issues, see the article “The Gun Toll…
Expert Commentary
…control buildings that were not remediated (n = 676) or permitted for renovation (n = 964), while also controlling for sociodemographic and other confounders measured around each building. Building remediations…
Expert Commentary