There was strong support for wearing masks to fight COVID-19 on Twitter in mid-2020. But anti-mask views got a bump from the media, researchers find.
The co-editor of a book on Trump's language deciphers the "foreboding, apocalyptic" language that preceded the January 6 breach of the Capitol.
The best way to convince people to get COVID-19 vaccines may be communication rooted in consumer behavior, researchers say.
People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.
The psychology of rituals can help us understand why some people react to pandemic holiday advice with indignation.
A new study suggests there's persuasive power in physicians' first-person tweets about the COVID-19 pandemic.
To get Americans to care about economic inequality, research suggests focusing on the disadvantages of having less, rather than the perks of having more.
Americans are essentially speaking separate, polarized languages, an analysis of words in cable news video comments indicates.
Brain scans of liberals and conservatives indicate "a neural basis to partisan biases, and some language especially drives polarization."
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