Kajsa Hansson
Postdoc
Voting and (im)moral behavior
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
Due to diffusion of responsibility, majority voting may induce immoral and selfish behavior because voters are rarely solely responsible for the outcome. Across three behavioral experiments (two preregistered; n = 1983), we test this hypothesis in situations where there is a conflict between morality and material self-interest. Participants were randomly assigned to make decisions about extracting money from a charity either in an experimental referendum or individually. We find no evidence that voting induces immoral behavior. Neither do we find that people self-servingly distort their beliefs about their responsibility for the outcome when they vote. If anything, the results suggest that voting makes people less immoral.
Publiceringsår
2022-12-31
Språk
Svenska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Scientific Reports
Volym
12
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Nature Publishing Group
Ämne
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2045-2322