SciShow: Ballot Design Has a Sneaky Influence on Your Vote

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Content of the Lesson: In elections, your vote may be influenced by design of the ballot itself, especially when you don’t have strong feelings about which candidate to elect. Political Questions on SciShow Psych: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYaDNK0xvM Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379415300998 https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/62/3/291/1936633?redirectedFrom=PDF https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022946710610 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325419874427 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/butterfly-did-it-the-aberrant-vote-for-buchanan-in-palm-beach-county-florida/90253BB8ADFD43F862FCBFA4F0BF00A3 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-21800-012 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=496863 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/voting-gm94742926-5275226 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/europe-map-outline-gm915792034-252024594 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/usa-map-gm915786730-252022748 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/beautiful-young-black-girl-voting-gm1001754954-270761520 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/election-in-usa-undecided-voter-making-decision-gm617901656-107403011 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/distraught-african-american-woman-voting-gm537469872-95336603 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/voting-for-election-ballot-box-in-front-of-blackboard-gm598782926-102720773 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/voters-at-polling-place-gm1270975575-373728284 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/hand-voting-in-paper-ballot-by-red-pencil-scbpbzvdqjlzq7vz6 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/usa-and-50-states-maps-gm1199758365-343391906


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