recent research

Another batch of Kevin Lewis picks:

• Voters are short-sighted, not because they're impatient but because they're uncertain about the future. (Alan M. Jacobs and friend)
• ... and they are more impressed by the number of pork projects their reps bring home to the district than by the total price-tag of those projects. (Justin Grimmer and friends)
• Citizens value public discourse but, paradoxically, don't like their elected officials on the soap box (as it feels like electioneering rather than leading). (Michael S. Evans)
• Money in politics may not be making citizens cynical - and could be informative. (Michael W. Sances)
• Self-affirmation makes us more open to seeing our mistakes. (Lisa Legault and friends)
• Money doesn't actually buy votes - as evidenced by self-financed candidates. (Adam R. Brown)
• Richard Lau tests his and Redlawsk's "correct voting" model.
• Social pressure is one of the best techniques to win over voters - but using it may also have a backlash effect. (Richard Matland and friend)
• More evidence that robotic calls are a waste of time. (Daron Shaw and friends)
• More participatory citizens are not necessarily more extreme. (Eitan Hersch)
• When party cues lead voters astray. (Logan Dancey and friend)
• Comfort with risk and candidate choice. (Cindy Kam and friend)
• Voting by mail boosts voter turnout - until the novelty wears off. (Paul Gronke)
• ... while social capital may not boost turnout at all - and could even decrease it. (Matthew Atkinson and friend)
• Candidates tainted by the groups associated with them. (Nathaniel Swigger)
• Habitual voting. (Elias Dinas)
• Evidence that voters do pick up information in campaigns - when candidates are moderate. (Dona-Gene Mitchell)
• Asking someone to not "cheat" or not "be a cheater" can make all the difference. (Christopher Bryan and friends)
• When it comes to evaluating influential people, liberals and conservatives may not differ so much. (Jeremy Frimer and friends)
• Dishonesty is contagious. (Robert Innes and friend)
• Evidence from 5 year olds and chimpanzees that humans are uniquely keen to "manage their impression." (Jan Engelmann and friends) ... dittoed in Kristin Leimgruber and friends' work
• A two step theory of the rise of cooperation in humans. (Michael Tomasello and friends)
• Coalition and cooperation games with Nash.
• More evidence that social pressure beats financial incentives in getting behaviors to stick. (Rob Nelissen and friend)
• A model on the evolution of trust. (Michael Manapat and friends)...
• ... and some neuroimaging suggesting we have at least two neural networks for deciding when to cooperate. (Carolyn Ceclerck and friends)
• As evidenced by different ultimatum-type games, not all pro-social behaviors are necessarily the same. (Toshio Yamagishi and friends)
• Using "cognitive reappraisal" to get deliberators to have an open mind. (Eran Halperin)