Maxwell School News and Commentary
Research by Emily Thorson cited in Forbes article on misinformation
Emily Thorson, assistant professor of political science, defines "belief echoes" as "effects on attitudes that persist even when you know that a piece of information is false."
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Lovely explains how the trade war hurts Americans in CNN article
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Inaugural online EMPA grads celebrate at Convocation
“One fear of launching the program online was that students may not feel the same deep connection to their peers and faculty and the Maxwell community, so we were pleasantly surprised by the turnout for graduation on campus and will be working on planning a reunion soon,” said Nell Bartkowiak, director of the E.M.P.A. program.
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Glimmerglass Festival
We tested the impact listening to the Breaking Glass podcast has on interest levels in performing arts and on improving diversity in performing arts .
Family Planning
We tested whether behaviorally informed appointment reminders could increase attendance at reproductive health clinics.
Monnat study on opioid misuse initiation published in Journal of Addictive Diseases
Lovely speaks with Associated Press, NPR, NY Times about the US-China trade war
"It looks like there was a level of specificity that China wasn’t willing to accept and a level of ambiguity that the Trump administration wasn’t willing to accept," Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics, told the New York Times.
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Maxwell School graduates its largest National Security Studies class
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Harrington Meyer book Grandmothers at Work cited in LA Times
According to University Professor Harrington Meyer, grandmothers often share child-rearing duties and ease the childcare burden of working parents, a role that has only been increasing.
See related: Child & Elder Care, United States