Working with blue collar worksites to provide healthy affordable meals and nutrition education and behavioral "nudges"

We are investigating how individuals' beliefs relate to their attitudes towards various standup comedy jokes. We are conducting this research to understand differences in individuals' opinions and perhaps shed light on disagreements in popular culture.

Test the impact of a child care provider weight management intervention embedded within Go NAPSACC on children's dietary intake and PA behaviors.

To find out whether physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists and other health care practitioners have different motivations for training and personal health outcomes.

We are asking to interview South Asian and Southeast Asians living in the United States on their experiences with birth, postpartum care, and menstrual management. We want to know how culture and religion can impact how we experience these life changing moments and how the medical team can best support South Asian and Southeast Asian patients during these times.

We are examining literacy instruction in a rural school through interviews, observations, and focus groups with relevant stakeholders.

We are interested in how information regarding political leadership affects how adults evaluate leaders during periods of crisis. This study is part of a larger NSF-funded project examining political accountability during crisis and the vignette study is an attempt to get at the psychological foundations of public opinion during crises.

We are examining the effect of eating allergens when someone has IgE to those allergens on blood biomarkers.

We are conducting a survey of people out drinking at bars and restaurants in downtown Chapel Hill to learn more about their thoughts and experiences with fake IDs. We are then giving an ID scanner to businesses that sell alcohol in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to help them identify fake IDs. After a 7-month study period, we will interview staff members at those businesses to learn about their experiences using the technology.

Conventional wisdom in the press has held that the Democratic party, whose base includes younger, marginal voters, benefits electorally from lower costs of voting. The issue of voting access is highly polarized, with Democratic politicians championing reforms that would make it easier to register and vote, and Republican politicians opposing these policies on the ground that they would lead to fraudulent voting. Mass partisans reflect this divide as well. To what degree is the difference in partisan support for increased access to voting reflective of instrumental concerns over which party benefits, rather than principled belief in expanding access to voting? We conduct an experiment to test this question, leveraging a recent shift in the propensity of Democrats to excel in low-turnout elections and the changing composition of unregistered voters. We present respondents with information to update their beliefs about who benefits from laws making it easier to register to vote in