Featured Research: 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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  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… 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

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  This is Your Brain on Politics

  With over a year of campaigning before the general election, voters should be able to tap into lots of information when they make their decisions in the voting booth. But it turns out there’s a lot more going on when we step behind the curtain to cast our ballot… More