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While President Biden was speaking about immigration reform at an April 28 joint session of Congress, the camera turned briefly to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).

Late-night hosts and cable pundits on Feb. 18 slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) for taking a trip to Cancun as his home state reeled from a deadly deep freeze.

Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Houston on Oct. 25, with a focus on reproductive rights. The Post asked rallygoers their stance on the issue.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) rode shotgun on the “People’s Convoy” on March 10 in Hagerstown, Md. The truckers are going to the Beltway for the fourth time to protest pandemic health restrictions.

Texas lawmakers on Feb. 18 reacted to Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tex.) trip to Cancun while Texas residents faced widespread power outages.

Are our everyday judgments about the world around us normative? Decades of research in the judgment and decision-making literature suggest the answer is no. If people’s judgments do not follow normative rules, then what rules if any do they follow? Quantum probability theory is a promising new approach to modeling human behavior that is at odds with normative, classical rules. One key advantage of using quantum theory is that it explains multiple types of judgment errors using the same basic machinery, unifying what have previously been thought of as disparate phenomena. In this article, we test predictions from quantum theory related to the co-occurrence of two classic judgment phenomena, order effects and conjunction fallacies, using judgments about real-world events (related to the U.S. presidential primaries). We also show that our data obeys two a priori and parameter free constraints derived from quantum theory. Further, we examine two factors that moderate the effects, cognitive thinking style (as measured by the Cognitive Reflection Test) and political ideology.

Politicians invest a lot of energy into managing their image, with the hope that the public views them favorably. In sharing details about themselves, elected officials want to be seen as people, not just as politicians. Are these efforts successful? I explore this question using an experiment inspired by a column in the celebrity entertainment magazine Us Weekly. I find that politicians who share nonpolitical autobiographical details about themselves secure warmer evaluations from the public. Reading this type of personalizing information also can contribute to ratings of elected officials that are less polarized by partisanship. While personalizing information boosts favorability toward politicians across party lines, members of the opposing party are particularly likely to report warmer affect toward the politician about whom they read. This suggests that this type of soft news coverage has the potential to depolarize partisan evaluations of politicians.