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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:16 PM Nov 2014

For 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 paper’s lead author, Jeff French, Varner Professor of Psychology and Biology and director of UNO’s 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.”
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For all of you who are angry at voters not turning out, a study to read.... (Original Post) AZ Progressive Nov 2014 OP
OK so does this mean marions ghost Nov 2014 #1
no excuse for not voting belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #2
actually there are plenty of good reasons for not voting La Lioness Priyanka Nov 2014 #3
i dont agree belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #4
you can disagree all you want, but we make voting extraordinarily hard in this country La Lioness Priyanka Nov 2014 #5
*WE* dont make it difficult the republicans do and they have they supreme court so until belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #6
just go vote does not work for people who work 2 jobs and have kids La Lioness Priyanka Nov 2014 #7
not voting gives us republicans who are not going to help anyone with that belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #8
again, these things are easy for you to say, because i bet you are not at all part of the group La Lioness Priyanka Nov 2014 #9
i am in the group that has to pay for the consequences of people not voting belzabubba333 Nov 2014 #11
do not agree at all, this report is all wrong. n/t. okieinpain Nov 2014 #10

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
1. OK so does this mean
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 03:35 PM
Nov 2014

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?

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
3. actually there are plenty of good reasons for not voting
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:12 PM
Nov 2014

especially when we have gone out of our way to disenfranchise votes, specifically, poor/minority voters.

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
5. you can disagree all you want, but we make voting extraordinarily hard in this country
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:14 PM
Nov 2014

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)
6. *WE* dont make it difficult the republicans do and they have they supreme court so until
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:24 PM
Nov 2014

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

 

belzabubba333

(1,237 posts)
8. not voting gives us republicans who are not going to help anyone with that
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:37 PM
Nov 2014

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)
9. again, these things are easy for you to say, because i bet you are not at all part of the group
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:43 PM
Nov 2014

that routinely has these conflicts.

 

belzabubba333

(1,237 posts)
11. i am in the group that has to pay for the consequences of people not voting
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 04:47 PM
Nov 2014

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

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