Scandal-ridden campaigns: the relationship between cognitive load and candidate evaluation

Nawara, Steven P.; Bailey, Mandi Bates

doi:10.1080/03623319.2021.1884780

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“…Since decision-makers have limited cognitive capacity, the amount of cognitive load to which they are exposed impacts the outcome of their decisions (Sweller, 2011). Studies show that the increase in cognitive load has a negative impact on performance in various tasks -simple cognitive tasks, such as math problems and number memorization (Deck, Jahedi and Sheremeta, 2021); complex cognitive tasks, such as problem solving or learning (Schrader and Bastiaens, 2012;van Gog, Paas and Sweller, 2010); economic tasks, leading to less risk-taking, stronger anchoring effects and more impulsive decisions (Deck and Jahedi, 2015;Hauge, Brekke, Johansson, Johansson-Stenman and Svedsäter, 2016); as well as voting, such as reducing the impact of politicians' controversies on candidate evaluations or increasing the effects of stereotypes, such as gender or physical appearance (Hart, Ottati and Krumdick, 2011;Nawara and Bailey, 2021). Both full information and naive-nor-mative approach to voting assume that correct voting uses a (relatively) large chunk of an individual's cognitive abilities.…”

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How to Vote Correctly

Bovan

2022

Anali Hrvat. politol. druš. (Online)

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The concept of correct voting, which refers to a vote that is the same one that would have been made under conditions of full information, has been used to evaluate citizens' voting decisions in various settings. Most studies either focus on determining individual and situational predictors of correct voting or determining the correctness of voting via heuristics. Since heuristics can lead to better decision outcomes than systematic processes, the goal of this study was to analyze how diﬀerent modes of decision-making strategies, as well as individual and situational characteristics, contribute to correct voting. To answer this question, an experiment was conducted in Croatia, a previously unstudied context for correct voting, in which participants gathered information on four parties in a mock election campaign. Results showed that higher political motivation and usage of compensatory decision-making strategies had a positive impact on the probability of casting a correct vote. However, direct eﬀect of cognitive load was found for participants with low levels of political motivation, for which an increase in cognitive load resulted in 25% less probability of voting correctly.

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How to Vote Correctly

Bovan

2022

Anali Hrvat. politol. druš. (Online)

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“…Chronotype has been linked to politically meaningful psychological traits, such as the Big Five (Lipnevich et al, 2017) and the Dark Triad (Jonason et al, 2013), and with demographic characteristics, such as urban-rural residence (Carvalho et al, 2014), age, and sex (Fischer et al, 2017). Inadequate sleep is linked to cognitive burdens (Killgore, 2010;Vaseghi et al, 2021); cognitive load affects ideological cognition (Eidelman et al, 2012), decision-making (Deck & Jahedi, 2015), especially as complexity increases (Allred et al, 2016), candidate evaluation (Nawara & Bailey, 2021), and the processing of news information (Van Cauwenberge et al, 2014). Sleep deficits also disrupt emotion regulation (Palmer & Alfano, 2017), which may make politics more stressful (Ford & Feinberg, 2020).…”

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Sleeping giant:A research agenda for politics and chronobiology

Ksiazkiewicz

2022

Polit. life sci.

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Sleep research presents an important frontier of discovery for political science. While sleep has largely been neglected by political scientists, human psychology is inextricably linked with sleep and so political cognition must be as well. Existing work shows that sleep is linked to political participation and ideology, and that contentious politics can disrupt sleep. I propose three directions for future research—on participatory democracy, on ideology, and on how context shapes sleep-politics links. I also note that sleep research intersects with the study of political institutions, of war and conflict, of elite decision-making, and of normative theory. In short, political scientists across subfields can and should consider whether and how sleep influences political life in their area of expertise and how to influence relevant policies. This new research agenda will enrich our theories of politics and enable us to identify pressing areas for policy interventions to revitalize our democracy.

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Scandal-ridden campaigns: the relationship between cognitive load and candidate evaluation

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Sleeping giant:A research agenda for politics and chronobiology

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