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Follow on Google News | The Art of Peer Pressure: Where's Your "I Voted" Sticker?By: leadersayswhat.com Since we aren't going to mandate voting, like some other countries, we need a technique that exerts pressure to participate in our government. Taking bribery off the table (it leads to corruption) and coercion (it leads to tyranny), there is an effective research-proven method that many States already use—appealing to people's social standing, aka their vanity. A study by four researchers at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago found that a key motivator to vote is that we enjoy telling others we voted. In the experiment, homeowners were notified that the researchers would show up after the election to conduct a survey on their participation. It turned out that people were significantly more likely to... Read more at: www.leadersayswhat.com/ End
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