What Motivate People to Vote?
What Motivate People to Vote?
Voting is often inconvenient, it is personally costly. You have to take time to register and to learn about the candidates, and in the election day you may need to take time of your work to stand in long lines possibly in a bad weather , all that knowing that perhaps your vote will note make a difference among all the millions votes. So why do millions of people expend their own time, energy, and money to cast a vote that will not make any difference in the electoral outcome? According to The American Psychological Association: Psychologists and political scientist have many theories:
* Some research suggests that people are motivated to vote because they want to "fit in." Bruce Meglino, PhD, of the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business, sees voting as an example of a behavior included in social admonitions--things people are supposed to do--such as working hard when no one's watching or helping a stranger they'll never see again. Given that voting is an activity with more costs than benefits for the individual, Meglino thinks that highly rationally self-interested people probably don't bother to vote.
* Some people, of course, vote because they believe their vote will make a difference, a psychological mechanism called the "voter's illusion." According to a study published by Melissa Acevedo, PhD, of Westchester Community College, and Joachim Krueger, PhD, of Brown University, in Political Psychology (Vol. 25, No.1)."Basically, people just think their vote makes a difference, and have this mistaken belief even though statistically it's not the case," Acevedo says.
* Voting may be just plain habit for some people, according to Wendy Wood, PhD, a social psychologist at Duke University and co-director of the Social Science Research Institute.
Also according to the website “Psychology today”, another reason for voting, offered by political scientists and lay individuals alike: is that it is a civic
Voting is often inconvenient, it is personally costly. You have to take time to register and to learn about the candidates, and in the election day you may need to take time of your work to stand in long lines possibly in a bad weather , all that knowing that perhaps your vote will note make a difference among all the millions votes. So why do millions of people expend their own time, energy, and money to cast a vote that will not make any difference in the electoral outcome? According to The American Psychological Association: Psychologists and political scientist have many theories:
* Some research suggests that people are motivated to vote because they want to "fit in." Bruce Meglino, PhD, of the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business, sees voting as an example of a behavior included in social admonitions--things people are supposed to do--such as working hard when no one's watching or helping a stranger they'll never see again. Given that voting is an activity with more costs than benefits for the individual, Meglino thinks that highly rationally self-interested people probably don't bother to vote.
* Some people, of course, vote because they believe their vote will make a difference, a psychological mechanism called the "voter's illusion." According to a study published by Melissa Acevedo, PhD, of Westchester Community College, and Joachim Krueger, PhD, of Brown University, in Political Psychology (Vol. 25, No.1)."Basically, people just think their vote makes a difference, and have this mistaken belief even though statistically it's not the case," Acevedo says.
* Voting may be just plain habit for some people, according to Wendy Wood, PhD, a social psychologist at Duke University and co-director of the Social Science Research Institute.
Also according to the website “Psychology today”, another reason for voting, offered by political scientists and lay individuals alike: is that it is a civic