Politics Is the New Attachment Style: What a Dating Study Reveals About Trust, Curiosity, and Modern Love (opens in new tab)

A new study published in the European Sociological Review found that young Americans strongly avoid dating across political lines. At first glance, the finding feels almost annoyingly predictable. Spend ten minutes on social media, attend a family gathering during an election year, or scroll through a dating app, and the result seems self-evident. But I do not think this study is really about politics. I think it is about trust. And more specifically, I think it is about what happens when a c...