While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of
division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly …

There is little doubt that increasing polarization over the last decade has transformed the
American political landscape. In The Other Divide, Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan …

Amid heightened political polarization in the United States, have politics worked their way
into the bedroom? An increase in political similarity between romantic partners has …

At present, the field of political psychology lacks an effective framework to conceptually
organize the findings from the voluminous literature assessing whether interpersonal …

The theory of resilience and relational load was used to examine the impact of voting
patterns in the 2016 US presidential election on individuals' romantic relationships …

How much does politics affect relationship building? Previous experimental studies have
come to vastly different conclusions–ranging from null to truly transformative effects. To …

The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our
politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the …

As political partisanship intensifies, political similarity in romantic partnerships has become
increasingly common. Still, there exist many for whom their romantic partnership is “cross …

In recent years, the debate about the state of democracy in the United States has split
political scientists into two camps: those who believed that American democracy was stable …

Social norms are important in explaining why people vote, but where do those norms come
from and is social pressure motivated by partisanship? In this article, we use political …