Congrats to Hillary and Matt!

Check out this forthcoming (already available online!) article by COPS folks Dr. Hillary Shulman and Ph.D. student Matt Sweitzer in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. The paper, "Varying Metacognition through Public Opinion Questions: How Language Can Affect Political Engagement," found was that when you ask students political survey questions using very simple language (using easy words and avoiding political jargon where possible), students report liking politics more and report being confident in their political abilities. This has implications for greater engagement of otherwise disengaged citizens in our democracy, and is part of an expanding program of research Hillary and Matt are working on. Check out this in press paper here: 
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261927X17707557