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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor all of you who are angry at voters not turning out, a study to read....
http://www.unomaha.edu/news/2014/06/cortisol.php"The study, published today in Physiology and Behavior, reports that while participation in electoral politics is affected by a host of social and demographic variables, there are also biological factors that may play a role, as well. Specifically, the paper points to low levels of the stress hormone cortisol as a strong predictor of actual voting behavior, determined via voting records maintained by the Secretary of State.
Politics and political participation is an inherently stressful activity, explained the papers lead author, Jeff French, Varner Professor of Psychology and Biology and director of UNOs neuroscience program. It would logically follow that those individuals with low thresholds for stress might avoid engaging in that activity and our study confirmed that hypothesis."
Not only did the study show, expectedly, that high-stress activities led to higher levels of cortisol production, but that political participation was significantly correlated with low baseline levels of cortisol, French explained. Participation in another group-oriented activity, specifically religious participation, was not as strongly associated with cortisol levels. Involvement in nonvoting political activities, such as volunteering for a campaign, financial political contributions, or correspondence with elected officials, was not predicted by levels of stress hormones.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)that people who experience voting as stressful vote less than those who do it more calmly and rationally, and therefore they have less aversion to it?
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)especially when we have gone out of our way to disenfranchise votes, specifically, poor/minority voters.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)this is why we get the turnout we get.
your position may make you feel morally superior, and provide a temporary life to your self esteem but actually does nothing to help increase voter turnout.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)it changes it's going to stay the same\. so if that's ok with those who dont vote well then stay home,until then what ever road blocks they throw in the way you have to get around. what ever this post is saying you have to ignore and vote. nothing will change if those who make excuses instead of voting cling to their excuses and stay home. it's not about me feeling anything.
my position of just go vote, if followed, would do everything to increase voter turn-out
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)and voting is on a non-holiday.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)you have almost 2 years to arrange a day off to vote. in most states now you dont have only 1 day to vote there is early voting. get an id , find your correct polling place , arrange to get a day off and go vote
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)that routinely has these conflicts.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)and what i typed is not that hard to do - you have almost 2 years
-how can people say they hate republican rule but then wont vote to rid themselves of it. and no i dont have that problem cause i make sure to get voting day off and i vote