CU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor聽Leaf Van Boven聽(Social) and graduate student聽Alex Flores聽(Social)聽were聽in the news, being聽interviewed for an article in CU Boulder Today about some research of theirs appearing in the聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This聽research examined the impact of people's political persuasions on how they viewed various hypothetical proposals towards addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. When participants were told a particuar proposal was supported by their preferred political elite figure聽they were more likely to support it themselves, whereas if the same聽proposal was espoused by a political figure on the other side of the aisle they tendedto oppose it. When they were told a policy proposal was backed by a bipartisan coalition or neutral experts they were most likely to support it. Read the CU Boulder Today article聽or the original .