Personal Life

Nearly half of the public would rather live in a different type of community from the one they're living in now -- a sentiment that is most prevalent among city dwellers.

Most Americans have moved to a new community at least once in their lives, although a notable number — nearly four-in-ten — have never left the place in which they were born.

Fully 87% of Americans are not at all bothered by Christmas music in stores and public places.

A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci...

Despite pro-diversity attitudes expressed in a Pew survey, American communities appear to have grown more politically and economically homogenous in recent decades.

The internet and cell phones have become central components of modern family life. Among all household types, the traditional nuclear family has the highest rate of technology usage and ownership.

Most Americans say they're not saving as much as they should -- but they're apparently not worried enough to do much about it.

This is a general discussion of the hallmarks of the new digital ecosystem and some of the changes that have occurred to people's relationship to each other and people's relationship to information and media.

Parents view the internet less favorably than in 2004, yet are still engaged with their children's media consumption. Teens are more likely than their parents to say tech devices are helpful.

Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don't ever check their accounts, who don't want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gmail-chat. What happens when you fall in love w...