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Are Electronic Voting Devices Dependable? (November one, 2004) Innovation in Training Election Is Crunch Time for U.S. Top secret Service (October 28, 2004)
Politicos take notice: Where people are assigned to vote can impact how they vote.
Scientists in a very new study found voters have been far more probably to approve a school-funding initiative if they had been assigned to forged their ballot at a school.
Numerically the influence was little: From the precincts analyzed,
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But "it's big in [the] perception that it could be large adequate to tip the scales in a very near election," stated research leader Jonah Berger,
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For instance, in 2000, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 0.009 % with the votes formally counted in Florida to win the U.S. presidency.
The research appears on-line nowadays in the journal Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences.
Behavioral Priming
The study supports the psychological idea referred to as "behavioral priming"—that simple stimuli inside the environment can influence judgment and behavior.
Within a classic example, students shown a picture of a library subsequently spoke quieter than students shown a control image.
In another review,
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Presumably the subjects associated bingo and Florida with often slower seniors,
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"Similarly, voting in a college may activate college relevant norms that one should support public education," study co-author Marc Meredith with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mentioned in an e mail.
Stanford Graduate School of Business: Marc Meredith The Molera Alvarez Group: Jaime Molera University of Pennsylvania: Jonah Berger Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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