No Rest for the Partisans: Sleep Quality and Affective Polarization

• In Event: Connection and Isolation

Brief Overview

We examine sleep and affective polarization in a 50-state U.S. survey. We find no associations with sleep duration or chronotype. We find that sleep restlessness has a U-shaped relationship: poor or excellent sleep predict heightened polarization.

Authors

• Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Fatih Erol, University of Idaho