This research demonstrates how promoting the environment can negatively affect adoption
of energy efficiency in the United States because of the political polarization surrounding …

An important component of political polarization in the United States is the degree to which
ordinary people perceive political polarization. We used over 30 years of national survey …

States also serve as laboratories of national partisan politics by facilitating competition within
each political party. In so doing, they participate in national political contests without …

Here, we advance the ideological migration hypothesis—individuals choose to live in
communities with ideologies similar to their own to satisfy their need to belong. In Study 1 …

Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society
for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others …

The study reported here examined the developmental antecedents of conservative versus
liberal ideologies using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human …

What influences perceptions of political polarization? The authors examine the polarization
of people's own political attitudes as a source of perceived polarization: Individuals with …

Psychology has neglected the study of variation across cities. An urban psychology is
needed that takes seriously such variation and focuses on strengths and assets contributing …

Two studies investigated how generalized uncertainty affects the tendency to coordinate
perceptions of the ingroup with intergroup perceptions. Across two field studies, we found …

This chapter proposes Ideological Enclavement Theory to explain how Red and Blue
America emerged and what the consequences of living in these ideologically-segregated …