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Can Our Political Affiliation Affect Our Moral Compass?

The Horizons Tracker

Such is the seemingly polarized state of modern politics that it’s very easy to portray our rivals as lacking in moral fiber, but is that really the case? The researchers attempted to track the moral foundations and political attitudes of people over time to see how they tracked one another. Why is that?

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New Tool Shows Our Exposure To Political Misinformation Online

The Horizons Tracker

While it’s tempting to assume that misinformation online mainly heralds from disreputable sources, it can also emanate from political elites. Twitter users were then assigned a separate score based on their exposure to such misinformation from political elites.

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8 Strategies for Navigating through Office Politics

HR Digest

Maintaining employee satisfaction throughout can become difficult if office dynamics chance upon negative office politics. As a leader, it is your responsibility to minimize any tense environment and navigate through workplace politics with strategies. The organization can inevitably suffer if negative politics fester in the workplace.

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Morally Divided Societies Are More Likely To Elect Extreme Leaders

The Horizons Tracker

The modern world seems to be hugely divided, with the polarization driven by partisan politics but often extending into seemingly every aspect of society. Research from the University of Queensland suggests that unorthodox leaders who try and shake up the political system tend to be elected in countries where society is morally divided.

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Does The Appearance Of A Robot Affect Our Moral Expectations Of It?

The Horizons Tracker

This has been the bedrock of the Moralities of Intelligent Machines project conducted by the University of Helsinki. The latest study conducted as part of this project explores how the appearance of robots affects our moral expectations of them. Moral judgments. Lifelike expectations. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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7 Leadership Lessons from the Political Arguing

Skip Prichard

I’m not sure about you, but it’s hard for me to take much more of the political fights happening throughout my social media world. What do leaders do when an unexpected blast of political winds threatens to overwhelm? The constant negative political talk had me pen a little poem about it all. Stephen Covey. Leaders Emerge.

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The Difficulties Nonprofits Face In Creating A Mission

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Syracuse University aimed to figure out why various nonprofit mission statements hold different moral values and how these values relate to the political beliefs of the people who started these organizations. Then, they checked the political party preferences of the founders by using data on their voter registrations.