Daniel Cox
Daniel Cox is director of the Survey Center on American Life and a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute. His research focuses on American culture, relationships, dating, and social change; he previously worked at PRRI and the Pew Research Center.
Young Women Are More Permissive of Women’s Infidelity, Survey Finds
Daniel Cox’s survey finds that Americans broadly judge adultery as morally wrong, but younger women are more permissive when judging women who cheat. The difference does not extend to women judging men’s infidelity, or to men’s judgments of either sex, Cox says. He offers possible explanations—including differences in experience and a stronger sense of shared fate among younger women—but stresses that the survey did not ask respondents why they answered as they did.
Fewer Shared Spaces Leave Men and Women With Less Practice Connecting
Daniel Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life, argues that men and women are growing more distrustful partly because they have fewer chances to know one another outside online feeds and dating profiles. Smaller families, weaker community institutions and more solitary routines, he says, leave young people with less practice navigating differences and building relationships. The result is not just a dating problem but a broader loss of social connection that Cox says requires more opportunities for people to meet and rely on one another.