Self-Prophecy Effects and Voter Turnout: An Experimental Replication
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Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self.
Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity (e.g., "being a voter") or as simply a behavior (e.g., "voting"). As predicted, the personal-identity phrasing significantly increased interest in registering to vote (experim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Political Psychology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0162-895X,1467-9221
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895x.00342