Volume 6 (2017), Issue 1

Exemplification research has consistently shown that after reading news reports including individual cases, people tend to base their judgments on these so-called exemplars. Until today, it is not entirely clear why exemplars are so powerful in...

Beginning in summer 2015, the increasing number of refugees coming to Europe and the question of how to handle this challenge has ignited a heated public debate in many European countries. In Germany, public discourse has become progressively...