Despite Professional Successes Many Women Still Experience Imposter Syndrome
March 15, 2023
Women in the professional world are thriving and have been pulling ahead of men for years. Confidence in job performance however, remains lower than men of their same age. Continue Reading →
Abortion, Race, and Ethnicity
December 12, 2022
As the dust settles after November’s midterm election, researchers are now able to look at the Dobbs decision’s impact on voters across the country. While significant attention has been given to the abortion views of men and women of various age groups, less notice has been paid to the similarities and differences of racial and ethnic groups. Continue Reading →
Pro-Choice, Pro-Life or … Both?
November 29, 2022
American attitudes on abortion are complicated. You don’t have to take my word for it. In the August 2022 American Perspectives Survey, more than half of Americans (53 percent) said abortion was a complicated issue. Fewer (45 percent) said the issue was simple and straightforward. However, in much of the public discussion on abortion nuanced Continue Reading →
How Young Women Saved the Democratic Party in 2022
November 17, 2022
Donald Trump and Dobbs are Defining the Politics of a New Generation of Women. Continue Reading →
The Class Divide in Family Dinner
November 7, 2022
The family dinner, once a ubiquitous feature of American life shared across cultural, religious, and class lines, has disappeared in many households. Continue Reading →
The Peril and Promise of Election Polls
October 31, 2022
How to interpret polls and avoid error ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Continue Reading →
Can Americans Find Common Ground on Abortion?
October 24, 2022
Most Americans are willing to find common ground on abortion. Continue Reading →
A Moral Double Standard on Marital Infidelity
October 12, 2022
Men and women hold different views of the morality of marital infidelity depending on who commits it. Continue Reading →
Why a Modest Decline in Religious Belief is Important
July 8, 2022
Another poll, another record broken in the country’s continuing religious descent. A new Gallup poll finds that 81 percent of Americans say that they believe in God, representing a six point drop over the last five years. Continue Reading →
Jews and the Faith of Their Children
May 23, 2022
Just half of Jews in America today believe it is important for children to be brought up in a religion so they can learn good values, making the Jewish community an outlier compared to other religious traditions. Continue Reading →