The Urban-Rural Divide in Our Heads: Misperceptions and Place-Based Affective Polarization

• In Event: Behavioral Perspectives on the Study of Economic Inequality

Brief Overview

The precise mechanisms of place-based polarization are still misunderstood. In this paper, we use three studies to argue that place-based resentment is rooted in misperceptions of urban and rural political ties.

Authors

• Sven Hegewald, ETH Zurich

• Dominik Schraff, Aalborg University