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The role of payoff valence on voting: egalitarian for gains and selfish for losses

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2021
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Alós-Ferrer, C., Garagnani, M., & García-Segarra, J. (2021). The role of payoff valence on voting: egalitarian for gains and selfish for losses. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 737225. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.737225

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We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). The latter method allows the subjects to approve of as many alternatives as they wish and has been shown to eliminate the incentives to vote strategically. For both methods, we observe that voters express higher support for egalitarian allocations (and lower support for selfish options) when sharing gains than when sha

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12

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737225

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General psychology, gains, losses, framing, payoff valence, plurality voting, approval voting

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English

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2021-11-24

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2022-02-10

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1664-1078

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merlin-id:22086

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Alós-Ferrer, C., Garagnani, M., & García-Segarra, J. (2021). The role of payoff valence on voting: egalitarian for gains and selfish for losses. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 737225. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.737225

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