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Research from the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement covers evidence-based models that identify strategies and policies that foster productive dialogue across diverse perspectives to drive successful outcomes.

Journal Article 2025	Beliefs about What Disadvantaged Groups Would Do with Power Shape Advantaged Groups’ (Un)Willingness to Relinquish it *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology* Frank Kachanoff, Arnold Ho, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington Jennifer Richeson, Nour Kteily
Journal Article 2024	Punitive but Discerning: Reputation can Fuel Ambiguously-Deserved Punishment but does not Erode Sensitivity to Nuance *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology* Jillian Jordan, Nour Kteily
Journal Article 2024	Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Re-Examined *Annual Review of Psychology* Nour Kteily, Mark Brandt
Journal Article 2024	Group-Based Reputational Incentives Can Blunt Sensitivity to Societal Harms and Benefits *Journal of Experimental Psychology: General* Charles A. Dorison, Nour Kteily
Journal Article 2024	Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity *Science* Jan Voelkel, Nicholas Stagnaro, Sophia Pink, Nour Kteily
Journal Article 2024	A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 Eli J. Finkel
Journal Article 2023	How Reputation Does (and Does Not) Drive People to Punish Without Looking *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* Jillian Jordan, Nour Kteily
Journal Article 2023	The social media discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant *PNAS Nexus* Eli J. Finkel
Journal Article 2022	Interventions to reduce partisan animosity Eli J. Finkel
Journal Article 2022	Exposure to a Media Intervention Helps Promote Peace in Colombia *Nature Human Behaviour* Emile Bruneau, Andres Casas, Boaz Hameiri, Nour Kteily
Working Paper 2024	Moralizing Partisanship When Surrounded by Co-Partisans Versus in Mixed Company (WP-24-23) *Institute for Policy Research - Working Papers* Michalis Mamakos, Tessa Charlesworth, and Eli J. Finkel
Policy Forum 2020	Political sectarianism in America *Policy Forum - Social Science* Eli J. Finkel, Christopher A. Bail, Mina Cikara, Peter H. Ditto, Shanto Iyengar, Samara Klar, Lilliana Mason, Mary C. McGrath, Brendan Nyhan, David G. Rand, Linda J. Skitka, Joshua A. Tucker, Jay J. Van Bavel, Cynthia S. Wang, James N. Druckman
Journal Article 2020	Using social and behavioral science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. *Nature Human Behavior* Eli J. Finkel

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