What does it take for supporters to lose faith in a politician?

Monday, April 22, 2019 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

When you discover that someone has told a lie, does the discovery change your feeling about that person? If that person is a politician you support, the answer is: probably not. Briony Swire-Thompson, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern, was part of a team that conducted a study to test whether people would lose faith […]

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