4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The science behind those comfy, cozy holiday feelings
Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine said people in his studies rate indoor spaces as homier when they contain elements of the outdoors, like plants.
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Why Trump’s racist appeals might be less effective in 2020 than they were in 2016
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about the Trump campaign’s rhetoric on race and appeals to white voters. “Trump has far more room to increase his support among the larger number of white Americans with lower levels of prejudice,” Hopkins said.
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Why the Democrats have shifted left over the last 30 years
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited for his research, which found that racial prejudice in white Americans has decreased since 2007, particularly among Democrats.
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White Americans say they’re less prejudiced
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote about his research, conducted in collaboration with recent alumna Samantha Washington, which found that “the average levels of anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice expressed by white Americans actually dropped from 2016 to 2018.”
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Why Democrats struggle to mobilize a ‘religious left’
Michele Margolis of the School of Arts and Sciences said white Democrats may be drifting away from religion due to their politics, making religious rhetoric less influential on party members’ voting. “If you live in a world where being a Democrat is equated with being less religious, and religion also isn’t central to your life, why should someone using religious rhetoric appeal to you?” said Margolis.
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How much do voting restrictions affect elections?
Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences joined a discussion on the impact of voter-ID laws. “There’s solid political science research on which legislators and states tend to pass the restrictive laws,” said Hopkins. “It’s typically Republicans, and it’s typically in competitive states with sizable black populations.”
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Psychologists Looked in the Mirror… and Saw a Bunch of Liberals
PIK Professor Philip Tetlock weighed in on the results of a study that found a lack of political diversity within the field of psychology. Tetlock proposed more collaboration between researchers with different political views.
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Political Twitter Is No Place for Moderates
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences writes about studying the political Twitter community with colleagues Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro also of Arts and Sciences, and Ye Liu and Lyle Ungar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.