A study led by researchers at the University of Toronto and coauthored by Rochester’s Bonne Le, showed that people who lived with family during COVID-19 had better mental health outcomes than people living alone.

The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.

In their latest survey, Rochester political scientists in the Bright Line Watch watchdog group find divisions along partisan lines have notably deepened, and voters’ confidence in next year’s midterm elections has already been affected.

A Rochester team of political scientists introduces the idea of ‘democracy by deterrence’—and shows why it might be weakening in the United States.

On the contrary, a historical state-level analysis links party competition to increased public investment and greater social well-being.

Right-wing candidates in Brazil rely successfully on “descriptive representation” to win elections, according to Rochester political scientists.

Rochester psychologists find that college students who reinterpret their stress response as performance-enhancing are less anxious and generally healthier.

River Campus psychologists and the Mt. Hope Family Center are awarded a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant to study the pandemic’s long-term effects on family cohesion and child well-being.

Rochester political scientist Scott Tyson says the growing belief in conspiracist narratives has led to the increased radicalization of average Americans.

Rochester psychologists say successful intervention efforts need to include partners of mothers-to-be.