More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.
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Whistleblowers should be entitled to financial support. But that has potential costs as well as benefits.
Public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many people experienced social isolation. But the pandemic didn’t invent loneliness, and its impacts on our health are growing.
To communicate scientific findings that are relevant to the public, science communicators need to understand how to overcome attitudes that are anti-science.
Google search algorithms often pull up misleading descriptors for controversial people, and results can differ across languages. Understanding how these algorithms function can address misinformation.
Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
The Republican Party has a decadeslong relationship with using distrust to incite its base and draw in more supporters – the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks just offer the latest example of this tactic.
The failure of the 2021 post-election deal is a missed opportunity for the African National Congress and Inkatha to work together.
With distrust for school officials prevalent during the pandemic, an educational historian calls attention to the need for officials to have more positive relations with educators and parents.
There has been growing discontent with many local authorities and calls by concerned citizens for the municipalities to be dissolved.
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
Many Americans have a distrust of atheists. A group of researchers found that some of the distrust relates to beliefs about atheists’ family values.
When people don’t trust the government, the media or police, they are less inclined to play by the rules and more likely to lash out violently.
The more often Americans used their phones to obtain information, the less they trusted strangers. How can this be, and what does it mean?
Potential donors must able to put their trust in charities.
Rational actor theories suggest the powerless should be reluctant to trust the powerful, but studies show we tend to do just that.
Teenagers need to trust their parents and learn about trusting others. Apps like Teensafe might undermine both.
Race-related demonstrations, Title IX disputes, affirmative action court cases, same-sex marriage bans. These issues made headlines in all spheres of the media this year. However, thoughtful articles on…
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology, Dean of Faculty Affairs, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Law, University of Warwick
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Director of the Center for Trust Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of Education, Arizona State University
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Professor of Political Science, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
