American Life Blog

February 9, 2024

Explore Dating Dealbreakers

Check out this interactive to explore which characteristics Americans view as the biggest dating dealbreakers and see who cares about which personal qualities. Continue Reading →

July 17, 2023

What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital

In the wake of the pandemic, the increase in both dog attacks and individual antisocial behavior seems to be a consequence of our deteriorating social capital. Continue Reading →

April 26, 2023

Does Politics Make People More Likely to Identify as LGBTQ?

A novel survey experiment tests the relationship between LGBTQ identity and political ideology. Continue Reading →

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March 15, 2023

Despite Professional Successes Many Women Still Experience Imposter Syndrome

Women in the professional world are thriving and have been pulling ahead of men for years. Confidence in job performance however, remains lower than men of their same age. Continue Reading →

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December 12, 2022

As the dust settles after the 2022 midterm election, researchers are now able to look at how the Dobbs decision impacted voters across the country. While significant attention has been given to the abortion views of men and women of various age groups, less notice has been paid to the similarities and differences of racial and ethnic groups. Continue Reading →

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November 29, 2022

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life or … Both?

American attitudes on abortion are complicated and most Americans don’t fall into the pro-life or pro-choice binary. Continue Reading →

November 17, 2022

How Young Women Saved the Democratic Party in 2022

Donald Trump and Dobbs are Defining the Politics of a New Generation of Women. Continue Reading →

November 7, 2022

The Class Divide in Family Dinner

Family dinners—a once ubiquitous feature of American life shared across cultural, religious, and class lines—have disappeared in many households. Continue Reading →

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October 31, 2022

The Peril and Promise of Election Polls

How to interpret polls and avoid error ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Continue Reading →

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October 24, 2022

Can Americans Find Common Ground on Abortion?

Most Americans are willing to find common ground on abortion. Continue Reading →

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Survey Reports

Daniel A. Cox
July 23, 2026

A Digital Divide in American Adolescence: Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience

If teenage years once represented a time of rebellion, teenagers’ lives today are marked less by pushing boundaries and more by building their own. Many teenage experiences are less common than they once were—dating, working a part-time job, and experimenting with drugs and alcohol are less common experiences. The 2026 American Teenagers Survey from the Continue Reading →

Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
April 27, 2026

Strangers Next Door: The Decline of Neighborhood Socializing and the Class Divide in Belonging

Acknowledgment The American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life is grateful to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its generous support of this research. As Americans spend more of their time online, the neighborhood—once a primary physical location for real-world socialization—is playing less of a central role than ever before. Since Continue Reading →