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Megastudy Findings from the Stanford Democracy Challenge
CDI Staff|November 21, 2024Science journal article highlights the effectiveness of CDI's Perspectives in reducing partisan animosity.
Navigating Campus Protests: University Leadership in the Era of Polarized Activism
Mylien Duong, PhD, Keith Welker, PhD, Mary Aviles, Ketura Elie, Caroline Mehl|September 17, 2024This report aims to equip higher education leaders with the tools to foster campus unity and maintain institutional integrity in the face of future activism.
Maintaining Campus Community During the 2024 Election: A Guide for Leaders, Faculty, and Staff
Mary Aviles, Mylien Duong, PhD|April 16, 2024This guidebook will help university leaders, faculty and staff prepare their campuses for the 2024 election.
Free Speech and Inclusion: How College Students Are Navigating Shifting Speech Norms
Mylien Duong, PhD, Stephen Hawkins, Keith Welker, PhD, Paul Oshinski, Daniel Yudkin, Ph.D.|September 21, 2023This report brings data to inform the public conversation about the current state of free expression and inclusion on college campuses.
The Online Educational Program ‘Perspectives’ Improves Affective Polarization, Intellectual Humility, and Conflict Management
Keith Welker, PhD, Mylien Duong, PhD, Macrina Dieffenbach, PhD, Jonathan Haidt, PhD, Peter Coleman, PhD|August 21, 2023Users experienced decreases in affective polarization, small to medium-sized increases in intellectual humility, and increases in sense of belonging.
Political Polarization and Its Repercussions for Public School Teachers
Mylien Duong, PhD|July 27, 2023A qualitative research report that compiles the narratives gathered from 14 interviews with a diverse group of U.S. public school teachers facing polarization.
Developing participant intellectual humility through technology delivered instruction – A proposed model
Juan Marcelo Gomèz, DBA, Nhung T. Hendy, PhD, Nathalie Montargot, PhD|June 28, 2023This paper proposes CDI's Perspectives program as a pedagogical tool to develop intellectual humility.
Conversations for Change: Affiliative Perceptions of Conversation Partners are Associated with Increases in Intellectual Humility
Katherine R. Thorson, PhD, Lindsey A. Beck, PhD, Sarah Ketay, PhD, Keith Welker, PhD|May 13, 2023The current study investigated whether affiliative interactions with a new conversation partner were associated with changes in intellectual humility over time.
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