Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and so Should You

By A. Gerber, Todd Rogers. Journal of Politics, 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “We know that humans are heavily inﬂuenced by their peers and social contacts (e.g., Bollinger & Gillingham, 2012; Bond et al., 2012; Gerber, Green, & Larimer, 2008; Gerber & Rogers, 2009; Kast, Meier, & Pomeranz, 2012; Meer, 2011; Paluck, 2011; Paluck & Shep-herd, 2012).”
Debiasing Decisions (2015, background): “…a high expected turnout at the polls (implying voting is normative) than message frames that emphasize low expected turnouts (implying each vote is important; Gerber & Rogers, 2009), and consumers prefer lower fat meat when its fat content is framed as 25% fat than 75% lean (Levin & Gaeth, 1988).”
Norm Perception as a Vehicle for Social Change (2016, background): “Gerber and Rogers (2009) conducted two “get out the vote” phone-based experiments in New Jersey and California.”
Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment (2016, unknown): “2007), and voter turnout (Gerber and Rogers 2009).”
Persistence (2014, unknown): “OPOWER’s treatment is inspired by research showing that people conform to what they perceive to be the behavior of others (Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990; Gerber & Rogers, 2009; Goldstein, Cialdini, & Griskevicius, 2008; Schultz et al., 2007).”
A Review and Taxonomy of Choice Architecture Techniques (2016, background): “Contributions to charity (Shang & Croson, 2009), environmental protection behaviors (Cialdini, 2003), and voting in elections (Bond et al., 2012; Gerber & Rogers, 2009) are also influenced by social norms.”
Social Norms and Energy Conservation (2011, unknown): “[48] Gerber, Alan, and Todd Rogers (2009).”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, background): “Broadly, dynamic norm interventions are well suited to dislodging a wide variety of problematic norms (Sparkman, 2020) and can impact policy attitudes (Sparkman & Walton, 2019, experiment 3), as well as voter turnout (Gerber & Rogers, 2009).”
YouTube, Social Norms and Perceived Salience of Climate Change in the American Mind (2017, result): “This result led the authors to suggest that a media focus on low political participation may actually undermine turnout by allowing audiences to infer that low participation is the norm (Gerber & Rogers, 2009).”
The short-run and long-run effects of behavioral interventions: Experimental evidence from energy conservation (2014, unknown): “2 There is a body of evidence that social comparisons affect choices in a variety of domains, such as voting (Gerber and Rogers 2009), retirement savings (Beshears et al. 2012), water use (Ferraro and Miranda 2013; Ferraro and Price 2013) and charitable giving (Frey and Meier 2004; Shang and Croson…”
A Review and Framework for Thinking about the Drivers of Prosocial Consumer Behavior (2020, background): “Similarly, norms that communicate low base rates of engaging in a behavior can decrease the tendency to engage in that behavior (Schultz et al. 2007; Gerber and Rogers 2009).”