Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12804-12809

  Healy, Andrew J ^a   Malhotra, Neil ^b   Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung ^b  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotions; Political science; Psychology; Voting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTION; FOOTBALL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELLBEING;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASKETBALL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FOOTBALL; GOVERNMENT; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATE GOVERNMENT;

EID: 77955618369     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007420107     Document Type: Article

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