Nancy R. Buchan

Saying you feel a strong national allegiance doesn’t mean you will act accordingly. mikiell/iStock via Getty Images Plus

August 24, 2022

Conservatives and liberals are equally likely to fund local causes, but liberals are more apt to also donate to national and global groups – new research

Gianluca Grimalda, Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Nancy R. Buchan, University of South Carolina

An experiment conducted online with residents of Italy and the US detected similar patterns based on ideological identity.

A volunteer distributes face masks in a rural California community in February 2021. Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

October 19, 2021

Nancy R. Buchan, University of South Carolina; Gianluca Grimalda, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Orgul Demet Ozturk, University of South Carolina

Experiments in the US and Italy that observed people’s charitable choices found similar results: People tend to prefer to help local communities.

Using nonverbal cues like hand gestures can help make communicating over video more effective. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images

January 19, 2021

Nancy R. Buchan, University of South Carolina; Wendi L. Adair, University of Waterloo, and Xiao-Ping Chen, University of Washington

Two strategies can make videoconferencing as effective as meeting face to face, or even better.