Researchers sought to learn more about the political development of the nation’s children. They interviewed nearly 200 elementary-school-aged children before and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. The infographic below summarizes some of the findings from the 2019 issue of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development titled, “Toward a Developmental Science of Politics.”

Issue Citation:
Patterson, M. M., Bigler, R. S., Pahlke, E., Brown, C. S., Hayes, A. R., Ramirez, M. C., & Nelson, A. (2019). Toward a developmental science of politics. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 84(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12410