Our mission at CivilPolitics.org is to educate groups and individuals who are trying to bridge moral divisions by connecting them with scientific research in this domain. We provide a platform that enables an exchange of evidence-based best practices, hypotheses, and ideas among partners. We do this in three primary ways: 1) Education on scientific research […]
Civility as we pursue it is the ability to disagree productively with others, respecting their sincerity and decency. By civility we do NOT mean agreement. We think citizens are well served when political parties represent different viewpoints and then compete vigorously to recruit voters to their side. Based on decades of social science research, we […]
Civil Politics non-profit organization that is run by a group of academics whose expertise lies in the use of data to understand moral psychology. We regularly publish articles in scientific journals concerning the antecedents and consequences of specific moral views. You can read some of our publications here, here, and here. An article about our […]
Aug 18
Recently, Chadly Stern and Tali Kleinman (of NYU and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), published a paper in Social Psychological and Personality Science detailing how activating a “conflict mindset” in an individual can get them to perceive outgroup members as less dissimilar than they might otherwise believe. Specifically, across three separate studies, they found that […]
Jul 16
Whether the deal that has been reached will or will not stop Iran from getting nuclear bomb is a question better left for experts in atomic energy and weapons, but there are some psychological processes occurring in reactions to the deal that are quite common and bear pointing out. – The people who are most […]
Jul 02
CivilPolitics’ mission is to educate the public on evidence-based methods for improving inter-group dialogue, with evidence defined broadly to include academic studies, empirical studies of community interventions, and also the practical wisdom learned by organizations that are bringing people together in the community. As part of this last area of evidence, we are asking our partners in the community […]
Jun 22
CivilPolitics’ mission is to educate the public on evidence-based methods for improving inter-group dialogue, with evidence defined broadly to include academic studies, empirical studies of community interventions, and also the practical wisdom learned by organizations that are bringing people together in the community. As part of this last area of evidence, we are asking our partners in the community […]
