Wheatley in the News
The latest articles featuring Wheatley Institute or Wheatley fellows.
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Don’t Let AI Teach Young People About Romance
Some might be surprised by the rate of AI companion use among young adults. But Freya India isn't. "...as an older member of Generation Z, I am not surprised," the writer and Washington Post contributor writes. "To me, this was a predictable step for a generation that grew up with online pornography."
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Abraham Lincoln and the Lost Art of Persuasion
Is rhetoric good or a bad? In his newest op-ed, Justin Collings— academic vice president of Brigham Young University and Wheatley Affiliated Scholar— argues that it's a noble tool. America just isn't using it.
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A Million Students, One Covenant Path
Wheatley's research report "The Religion and the Mental Health Connection" was recently cited in a media event by Elder James R. Rasband, a General Authority Seventy and Commissioner of the Church Educational System, as he spoke at an event celebrating the success and recent milestones of the Church of Jesus Christ's Church Educational System.
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Are We Leveraging the Full Impact of Faith in America’s Mental Health Crisis?
What is the link between religion and mental health? Could it be key to dealing with America's on-going mental health crisis? Researchers at Wheatley Institute think it could be.
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Arthur Brooks: Dating Apps Aren’t Broken. You’re Just Using Them Wrong.
Arthur C. Brooks— Harvard professor, New York Times best-selling author, and research expert on the science of happiness— recently cited "State of Our Unions 2026: The Dating Recession" in his national column "The Pursuit of Happiness" as he discussed modern dating myths and behaviors.
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Love Artificially: The Dangers of AI Relationships
AI is an incredible tool. But what happens when people start using it as a virtual relationship?
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Wheatley Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer Analyzes Latter-Day Saint Retention for Deseret News
The Church of Jesus Christ isn’t about the percentage of the U.S. population; it’s about a people doing their best to love and worship God. The data does its real work when it is in the service of that much loftier goal.
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Deseret News Highlights Wheatley Fellow Loren Marks
A recent op-ed by Betsy VanDenBerghe in the Deseret News highlighted the large volume of research by Wheatley Religion Fellow Loren Marks on religion and family life.
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New US Fertility Rate Data and Affordability
The Hill recently reported on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s latest statistics on U.S. fertility rates, citing Wheatley research in the 2025 American Family Survey as it explored potential attitudes and causes behind the steady decrease of national birth rates.
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Should Faith Play a Role in Schools?
"Rather than use religion to indoctrinate, Scott’s research argues, faith-based groups represent ways public schools can tap into a deeper connection to the communities and people educators are attempting to serve."
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More Than Words: Making a Prophet’s Call for Peace Our Own
"In the long run, especially the eternal long run, division serves no one. It is exhausting, debilitating and destructive. President Oaks, in the name of Christ, has again invited us to choose a better way — the way of a peacemaker who understands that through our actions now, each of us will make the most of this life and the one to come."
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Is the Republic in the Midst of a Constitutional Crisis?
Wheatley Fellow Thomas N. Griffith contributed an op-ed to the Deseret News about upholding the Constitution through effective dialogue and compromise, arguing that the biggest threat to the U.S. Constitution is "the toxic polarization that is dividing our people."
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