Will we habituate to the decline of democracy?

Tali Sharot1,2, Cass R Sunstein1,2

  • 1Tali Sharot, Section Editor, Neurosciences, Science Advances; Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, WC1H 0AP, UK; The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, WC1B 5EH, UK; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Science Advances
|July 2, 2025
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