Adam Hughes

The way polling questions are asked can influence people's answers. Survey experiments are one way to measure the degree to which different questions elicit different answers.

Men are overrepresented in online image search results for popular jobs. Women appear lower on the page than men in many of these searches.

Partisan differences are modest among Americans who mention family, career, money or friends as aspects that make their lives meaningful.

Four topics are universally associated with higher levels of life satisfaction: a person’s good health, romantic partner, friends and career.

We asked thousands of Americans where they find meaning in life. Their responses were rich, thoughtful and varied.

The ways that social media shape political attitudes and the intricacies of lawmaking in Congress were two of many topics at the APSA annual conference.

For the average moderate legislator, about 54% of a member’s Facebook posts discussed local issues between 2015 and 2017. But for the average very liberal or very conservative legislator, just 38% of posts dealt with local issues.

The U.S. congressional Facebook audience used the “angry” button in response to lawmakers’ posts nearly 14 million times following the 2016 election.

About seven-in-ten women in Congress mentioned sexual misconduct in their official Facebook posts between Oct. 1 and Dec. 30, 2017, compared with 37% of men in Congress.

The most ideological members of Congress shared news stories on their Facebook pages more than twice as often as moderate legislators between Jan. 2, 2015, and July 20, 2017, according to a new Pew Research Center study that examined all official Facebook posts created by members of Congress in this period. The analysis included links […]