Dignity Weekly

Dignity Awards 2024

We’re doing something a bit different this week. Instead of asking the National Citizens Panel to score passages, we provided them with five of the highest dignity passages from Democrats and five from Republicans, and we asked them to rank them from most inspiring to least inspiring and giving reasons for their scores. It's time to hand out some dignity awards! About The Dignity Index The Dignity Index is an initiative by UNITE, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing political divisions by promoting respectful and dignified public discourse. The Index measures and scores public speech on a scale from contempt to dignity, encouraging a higher standard of communication among public figures. By focusing on the speech and not the speaker, the Dignity Index is designed to draw our attention away from the biases of partisan politics and toward the power we each have to heal our country and each other. For more information, visit The Dignity Index website. [https://www.dignity.us/] About The National Citizens Panel The National Citizens Panel (NCP) is the brainchild of UNITE, in partnership with polarization research firm More in Common [https://www.moreincommon.com/] and ROI Rocket [https://www.roirocket.com/]. UNITE is advised by social scientists at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute [https://gardner.utah.edu/] at the University of Utah. In January, 2024, UNITE engaged a panel of approximately 80 U.S. adult participants who were recruited as a representative sample of Americans by political party identification, gender, race, age, education, income, geographic region, and Hidden Tribe methodology. (Please see hiddentribes.us [http://hiddentribes.us/] for more information). The panel is contracted through the end of the 2024...

Dignity in victory and defeat

The voters have spoken and for candidates it’s time to declare victory and accept defeat… but did they do it with dignity or contempt? About The Dignity Index The Dignity Index is an initiative by UNITE, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing political divisions by promoting respectful and dignified public discourse. The Index measures and scores public speech on a scale from contempt to dignity, encouraging a higher standard of communication among public figures. By focusing on the speech and not the speaker, the Dignity Index is designed to draw our attention away from the biases of partisan politics and toward the power we each have to heal our country and each other. For more information, visit The Dignity Index website. [https://www.dignity.us/] About The National Citizens Panel The National Citizens Panel (NCP) is the brainchild of UNITE, in partnership with polarization research firm More in Common [https://www.moreincommon.com/] and ROI Rocket [https://www.roirocket.com/]. UNITE is advised by social scientists at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute [https://gardner.utah.edu/] at the University of Utah. In January, 2024, UNITE engaged a panel of approximately 80 U.S. adult participants who were recruited as a representative sample of Americans by political party identification, gender, race, age, education, income, geographic region, and Hidden Tribe methodology. (Please see hiddentribes.us [http://hiddentribes.us/] for more information). The panel is contracted through the end of the 2024...

Election eve showdown

With Election Day just days away, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their closing arguments to voters. But do those messages come with a dose of dignity or a heap of contempt? Our panel discusses and the National Citizens Panel gives us a view of what Americans are thinking.  About The Dignity Index The Dignity Index is an initiative by UNITE, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing political divisions by promoting respectful and dignified public discourse. The Index measures and scores public speech on a scale from contempt to dignity, encouraging a higher standard of communication among public figures. By focusing on the speech and not the speaker, the Dignity Index is designed to draw our attention away from the biases of partisan politics and toward the power we each have to heal our country and each other. For more information, visit The Dignity Index website. [https://www.dignity.us/] About The National Citizens Panel The National Citizens Panel (NCP) is the brainchild of UNITE, in partnership with polarization research firm More in Common [https://www.moreincommon.com/] and ROI Rocket [https://www.roirocket.com/]. UNITE is advised by social scientists at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute [https://gardner.utah.edu/] at the University of Utah. In January, 2024, UNITE engaged a panel of approximately 80 U.S. adult participants who were recruited as a representative sample of Americans by political party identification, gender, race, age, education, income, geographic region, and Hidden Tribe methodology. (Please see hiddentribes.us [http://hiddentribes.us/] for more information). The panel is contracted through the end of the 2024...

Presidential ads in the final weeks

This episode of Dignity Weekly looks at ads the Trump and Harris campaigns are using as they head into the final weeks before Election Day.  About The Dignity Index The Dignity Index is an initiative by UNITE, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing political divisions by promoting respectful and dignified public discourse. The Index measures and scores public speech on a scale from contempt to dignity, encouraging a higher standard of communication among public figures. By focusing on the speech and not the speaker, the Dignity Index is designed to draw our attention away from the biases of partisan politics and toward the power we each have to heal our country and each other. For more information, visit The Dignity Index website. [https://www.dignity.us/] About The National Citizens Panel The National Citizens Panel (NCP) is the brainchild of UNITE, in partnership with polarization research firm More in Common [https://www.moreincommon.com/] and ROI Rocket [https://www.roirocket.com/]. UNITE is advised by social scientists at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute [https://gardner.utah.edu/] at the University of Utah. In January, 2024, UNITE engaged a panel of approximately 80 U.S. adult participants who were recruited as a representative sample of Americans by political party identification, gender, race, age, education, income, geographic region, and Hidden Tribe methodology. (Please see hiddentribes.us [http://hiddentribes.us/] for more information). The panel is contracted through the end of the 2024...

Senate race dignity highs and lows

We’re about two weeks from Election Day and things can get a bit heated down the stretch. On this episode, the Dignity Panel looks at four clips from Senate races around the country. Our panelists this week: Tami Pyfer, Chief of Staff & Vice President of External Affairs, UNITE… Dr. Jesse Graham, the George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Utah… Dr. Samantha Ball, Senior Research Associate at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah… Steven Lehnhof, project assistant with the Dignity Index. And Ashley Guckert, Lead Researcher, The Dignity Index tells us how National Citizens Panel scored this week’s messages. About The Dignity Index The Dignity Index is an initiative by UNITE, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing political divisions by promoting respectful and dignified public discourse. The Index measures and scores public speech on a scale from contempt to dignity, encouraging a higher standard of communication among public figures. By focusing on the speech and not the speaker, the Dignity Index is designed to draw our attention away from the biases of partisan politics and toward the power we each have to heal our country and each other. For more information, visit The Dignity Index website. [https://www.dignity.us/] About The National Citizens Panel The National Citizens Panel (NCP) is the brainchild of UNITE, in partnership with polarization research firm More in Common [https://www.moreincommon.com/] and ROI Rocket [https://www.roirocket.com/]. UNITE is advised by social scientists at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute [https://gardner.utah.edu/] at the University of Utah. In January, 2024, UNITE engaged a panel of approximately 80 U.S. adult participants who were recruited as a representative sample of Americans by political party identification, gender, race, age, education, income, geographic region, and Hidden Tribe methodology. (Please see hiddentribes.us [http://hiddentribes.us/] for more information). The panel is contracted through the end of the 2024...