While people with similar political views tend to grow closer over time, friendships between those who start out politically distant rarely shift opinions, suggesting social influence depends strongly on initial similarity in beliefs www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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(June 2026) - We examine how social interactions and friendships shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, a leading French university specializing in social and polit...
