Does violence beget violence? In POQ, Vargiu & Nai found that while Democrats initially condemned violence against Republicans, their support for partisan violence increased following Mangione’s arrest. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Christian nationalism isn't just a worldview — it's an emerging identity. In POQ, Walker et al. find that various definitions of Christian nationalism can influence respondents' self-categorization. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

The educational attainment of welfare recipients influences perceptions of deservingness. In POQ, Diessner et al. find that university-educated workers are seen as less in need of support in contemporary knowledge economies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Are younger generations souring on the British monarchy? In POQ, Phillips & Larner find that, under Queen Elizabeth, people became fonder of it with age, but some warning signs for the youth exist for King Charles. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Does partisan embarrassment influence partisan loyalties? Connors et al. find that partisan embarrassment does not significantly impact partisan identity, affective party ratings, private or public party support, or perceived party competence. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Can gender-inclusive language improve the comparability of surveys? In POQ, Findor et al. find that gender-inclusive labels led to more favorable evaluations, especially in grammatically gendered languages. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Do group-based inequalities feel more unjust? In POQ, Leipziger et al. find limited evidence that intergroup inequality is perceived as more unfair and evokes stronger feelings of injustice than interpersonal inequality. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Foreign shaming can cause public backlash. Gruffydd-Jones examined the impacts of criticisms of China's COVID-19 policies on public opinion. Chinese citizens who didn't read foreign criticism grew more supportive of the Chinese government. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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The LGBT community is not monolithic. In POQ, Jones finds a variety of ideological gaps in the LGBT community between various subgroups. Of these subgroups, gender differences are more muted than sexual orientation and transgender identity. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How much can facts shift public opinion on inequality? M.H. Go et al.'s study shows corrective info boosts support for gender equality policies in South Korea, but barely moves attitudes in Japan. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How should we conceptualize political interest? In POQ, Laffineur et al. demonstrate that political interest and disinterest are distinct social identities through a newly developed methodological approach. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Does partisanship affect justifications of political violence? Berntzen et al. find that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to justify identical acts of political violence when the victims are from the opposing party. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Hungary has elected a new prime minister. Where are the sore losers? In POQ, Kerr et al. found evidence that perceived election quality increases following electoral turnover in competitive authoritarian regimes. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How do voters “think ideologically” in multiparty systems? In POQ, Lachance & Treger find that Canadian voters use left–right labels as shortcuts to infer candidates’ positions, even when they don't fully align with their policy preferences. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Can war unify a deeply polarized society? With data from Israel before and after the October 7 Hamas attack, Feinstein & Ben-David show a “split” response: high support for the war and trust in the military, but no rally-’round-the-flag. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Does personal proximity to drug market participants fuel opposition to drug reform? In POQ, Zizumbo-Colunga & López find evidence from 18 Latin American countries that suggests the opposite. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Can LLMs assist in the reliance on closed-ended questions in surveys? In POQ, DiGiuseppe et al. find that LLMs have the potential to unlock the benefits of pairwise comparisons to scale open-ended responses. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Can training individuals on survey methodology boost their critical processing of polls? Kuru compares three preemptive interventions and finds that “psychological inoculation” is particularly effective for critical evaluation of polls. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How has media trust changed in the Americas in recent years? In POQ, Collier, analyzing AmericasBarometer data from 2008 to 2023, shows that media trust declined across 20 countries throughout the Americas during that time. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Do survey passwords in postal invitation letters affect response rates in an online survey? In POQ, Haas et al. find evidence that longer and more complex passwords increase participation rates. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Not all news clicks teach us something. In POQ, Cardenal et al., using digital trace data, find that only article-level exposure to Ukraine stories—not general news browsing—predicted who learned about the Russian invasion. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Can we reduce bias in nonprobability samples of social media users? In POQ, Pollard et al. show that propensity score weighting can reduce differences between samples of X users and the general population.

Does the gender and sexual identity shape public support for prospective judges? In POQ, Stone & Yang find that Americans across all partisan backgrounds penalize LGBTQ judicial nominees, with transgender nominees facing the largest penalties. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Did Dobbs have a chilling effect on survey responses? In POQ, Kam & Marcellin find that women were less willing to disclose their pregnancy status in the nation's premier health survey (BRFSS), on the heels of the Dobbs decision. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Have web surveys influenced party identification results? In POQ, Dyck & Santucci find that, when measured with a forced-choice question option as opposed to a volunteered response, there are many more pure independents than previously thought. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

The debate over DHS funding is ongoing. How has opinion shifted on this topic in recent years? In POQ, Ollerenshaw & Jardina find that opposition to federal spending on border security has dramatically increased among Democrats. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Can moral reframing increase favorability towards vaccines? DeMora et al. test the impact of moral reframing among Republicans with messaging that connected vaccines to patriotism. For the majority, it holds the potential to fail or backfire. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...