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Political Polarization and Interest Groups
No full textRecently the US Congress has gotten lost on the road to consensus. The 113th Congress is onpace to be the least productive in American history. Just last fall the nation saw the federal government’sauthority to spend money temporarily suspended in an attempt to force a repeal of the Affordable Careand Patient Protection Act, also known as Obamacare. The differences between Democrats andRepublicans once seemed subtle to many Americans, but this has changed, and our current politicalenvironment is all the more tense because of this. In short, the area where these competing visions forthe country once converged has collapsed, leaving few opportunities for compromise between liberalsand conservatives. This is the space we refer to as the “political center.
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No full textAlthough empirical research on internet addiction remains in its infancy, it is emerging as an area of considerable interest. The current study was designed to address two research questions:1. Experiment 1: Are personality processes (i.e., appearance, performance, and social self-esteem; satisfaction with life; attributed oppression and felt oppression) a predictor of internet addiction?2. Experiment 2: Is neurocognition (i.e., impulsivity, self-control, attentional blink, executive functioning, memory span, cognitive interference, and inhibition) a predictor of internet addiction