Disentangling the Factors Behind Shifting Voting Intentions: The Bandwagon Effect Reflects Heuristic Processing, While the Underdog Effect Reflects Fairness Concerns

Disentangling the Factors Behind Shifting Voting Intentions: The Bandwagon Effect Reflects Heuristic Processing, While the Underdog Effect Reflects Fairness Concerns

In today’s elections, abundantly available polls inform voters what parties lead and what parties trail. This allows voters to accurately predict the likely outcomes of elections before the final results are in. Voters may react to these ex-ante election outcomes by shifting their votes either towar...

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Main Authors: Joris Lammers, Marcin Bukowski, Anna Potoczek, Alexandra Fleischmann, Wilhelm Hofmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2022-11-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Subjects:
elections
polls
political psychology
decision making
heuristics
morality
Online Access:https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/9241

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