The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for April 2020.
Making people’s lives better makes them more likely to vote. Is it time to move beyond traditional turnout strategies?
Standard remedies to improve turnout focus on making it easier but not on making it more desirable to vote. That can change by giving people more ways to express themselves when voting.
Most of us agree that voting and getting a flu shot are good and important. Despite that, most of us don’t do them.
Companies, government entities, and nonprofits could—and should—design nonpartisan tools to build a culture of voting.
In many ways the American public is just as disengaged now as it was before Trump’s election.
