Focus on Outliers Creates Flawed Snap Judgments Our quick scan of a crowd isn't as reliable as we think, new research suggests. DURHAM, N.C. -- You enter a room and quickly scan the crowd to gain a sense of who’s there...
For Some Black Students, Discrimination Outweighed Integration's Benefits New Cook Center analysis shows that for Black students, school integration was no panacea. DURHAM, N.C. — Integrating the American classroom has long been a goal of many who seek to...
Don’t Like Online Outrage? Look Inward Duke experts on why de-polarizing America is up to the individual While social media platforms can employ algorithms and other tools to help improve the level of...
Fighting Online Extremism Duke sociologist Christopher Bail discusses polarization in social media and how to improve the public conversation When he was 11, Chris Bail and...
Understanding Democracy's Frailties With challenges to democratic institutions, political science students are rethinking what they believe about how politics work Before Donald Trump’s surprise election in 2016, students in...
