New article in Psychological Science...so amazing even Huffington Post commented on it!
Participating in Politics Resembles Physical Activity: General Action Patterns in International Archives, United States Archives, and Experiments
Kenji Noguchi, Ian M. Handley, and Dolores Albarracín
Political participation may be linked to general action tendencies. Greater action-tendency index (e.g., percentage of people exercising 5 or more days per week) was shown to correlate with greater political participation (e.g., voter turnout) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. In addition, volunteers who were exposed to action words (e.g., go, move) had stronger intentions to vote in an upcoming election and volunteered more time to a calling campaign on behalf of a university policy than volunteers who were exposed to inaction words (e.g., relax, stop). These findings suggest that voting campaigns reminding people to "take action" may be effective in mobilizing citizens to vote and participate in political activities.
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