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Adhering to Cultural Norms Can Help Immigrants Elicit Acceptance, Study Finds

New research finds Germans are less likely to help a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, but this bias fades if she demonstrates agreement with the national consensus that littering is bad.

Tom Jacobs

Nationalism and climate change, Easter Island

What If Climate Change and Rising Nationalism Both Had the Same Solution?

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

Louise Fabiani

President Donald Trump awaits the arrival of Slovakia's Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini for meetings at the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 3rd, 2019.

News in Brief

The Most Racist People Are Also the Most Likely to Underestimate Their Racism

New research finds that the famous Dunning-Kruger Effect extends to the way we think about our own racism and sexism.

Tom Jacobs

An ornament and candles are seen at a memorial site at the Botanical garden in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 18th, 2019, three days after a shooting incident at two mosques in the city that claimed the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers.

News in Brief

Terrorist Attacks Knit Communities Together, According to New Research

In Twitter responses to a Paris terrorist attack, shared sadness gave way to expressions of solidarity.

Tom Jacobs

Racist Irish caricatures in 19th-century America

Economics

New Evidence That Immigration Is Good for America

The evidence suggests that, in the long run, immigration is good for America.

Tom Jacobs

President Donald Trump with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during his visit to U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas, on January 10th, 2019.

Social Justice

How Metaphor Can Be a Potent Tool in Fostering Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

For a politician who wants to trigger nativist revulsion, a metaphor can be as effective as an explicit insult.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Discomfort With Multiculturalism Linked to Despair

New research points to a possible precursor to America's suicide and opioid epidemics.

Tom Jacobs

Honduran migrants take part in a caravan toward the United States in Chiquimula, Guatemala, on October 17th, 2018.

Social Justice

Americans Who Fear the Migrant Caravan Don’t Meet Very Many Immigrants

New research finds that residents of the Southeast, Midwest, and Mountain Northwest are more likely to view the caravan as a threat than their counterparts in the Northeast and Southwest—where immigrants make up a larger share of the local population.

Massoud Hayoun