Voting

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  The Emotional Citizen

  Emotion trumps partisanship and ideology when people evaluate political candidates, Linda Isbell’s research shows. More

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  How Voters Really Decide

  APS Fellow Jonathan Haidt explains how the science of moral judgment can shed light on voter behavior, political ideology, and compromise. More

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  Using Science to Understand How Ballot Design Impacts Voter Behavior

  Concern over the security of the voting process is a recurring issue, but psychological science suggests an even bigger problem may lurk within our voting systems: poor design. More

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  When Voting, Political Preferences Outweigh the Evidence

  Supporters of a political measure are more influenced by their initial preferences than cold, hard evidence suggesting that the measure won’t go their way, a study shows. [More]

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  The ‘Silent Majority’ Agrees With Me, Voters Believe

  Psychologists have found that we tend to think people who are similar to us in one explicit way—say, religion or lifestyle—will act and believe as we do, and vote as we do. More

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  Who Influences Your Vote? It May Depend on How Soon the Election Is

  Neighbors’ lawn signs, public opinion polls and even a conversation in the next restaurant booth can affect how people vote in an election. But it all depends on how far away the election is. More