Lifestyle Polarization on a College Campus: Do Liberals and Conservatives Behave Differently in Everyday Life?
Sanaz Talaifar,
Diana Jordan,
Samuel D. Gosling
et al.
Abstract:Socializing, moving, working, and leisure form the foundation of human experience. We examined whether these foundational, ostensibly apolitical activities are nevertheless organized along political fault lines, revealing “lifestyle polarization.” In a sample of up to 1,373 young adults followed for up to 11,397 days, we quantified the association between political identity and 61 social, movement, work, and leisure behaviors collected from smartphone sensors and logs (i.e., GPS, microphone, calling, texting, … Show more
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