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...Le Pen’s fury at the state of France. It’s difficult to look anywhere and see politics as anything other than a sea of turbulent feelings, which poses several problems for social scientists interested in making sense of contemporary social action and political life. The first is how do we know how people feel? Surveys – whether opinion polls or sociological...

...articulate their more personalised, spontaneous responses to scientific messages. This can mean, as in the case of the readers’ comments discussed above, the circulation of pejorative or reactionary statements that would not satisfy the editorial restrictions of more formal media outlets. However, in our study blogs and comments also offered a platform for objecting to...

...articulate theories that would be most likely to find unexpected behaviour by juries. A second, somewhat related, reason is that we want to be able to use our research to make generalisations to other scenarios that we have not yet tested. A theory allows us to make inferences that 'go beyond the information given'. A policy maker would not be very impressed if each time...