Sleeping with the enemy: partisan sorting in online dating

Written By Kirstie Hepburn

How do politics affect non-political decisions? To address this question, we focus on online dating to identify factors that mitigate these biases. Through a conjoint experiment with 3,000 UK participants, we show that partisanship and physical appearance equally influence dating decisions. Link to paper here.


Kirstie Hepburn
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