"In The Sad Citizen, Christopher Ojeda draws on wide-ranging data from the United States and beyond to explain how politics is depressing, why this matters, and what we can do about it. Integrating insights from political science, sociology, psychology, and other fields, The Sad Citizen exposes the unhappy underbelly of contemporary politics and offers fresh ideas to strengthen democracy and help citizens cope with the stress of politics.."
"Paul Smaldino with 'A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning' (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3py9c_v1) seeks to understand the cultural evolution of parochial biases in social learning: people actually prefer copying whichever group has better knowledge for local conditions. Social patterns and biases among groups... . He also explores parochialism, majority–minority dynamics, immigration adaptation, and the long-term effects of colonialism.."
