Political Tension During the 2016 US Election Cut Many Thanksgiving Dinners Short (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Political Tension During the 2016 US Election Cut Many Thanksgiving Dinners Short (1 of 1)

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In a study examining anonymized phone-location data, researchers found that mixed-politics families shortened their Thanksgiving dinners following the contentious 2016 election. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 June 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.K. Chen at University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties."

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Keith Chen and Rhyne Rhola (2018), The Effect of Partisanship and Political Advertising on Close Family Ties

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