Contrast Effects and Approval Voting
An Illustration of a Systematic Violation of the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Condition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6337089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yohsuke Ohtsubo (0000-0003-2074-0244, Nara University), Yoriko Watanabe (Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 549-559 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0162-895x.00340 |
| OpenAlex | W2077255714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
In approval voting, voters indicate all alternatives acceptable to them, instead of indicating their most preferred alternative. This study sought to examine the hypothesis that, under certain conditions, approval voting systematically violates a rationality condition of social choice: the independence of irrelevant alternatives condition. Given a well‐known psychological phenomenon, the contrast effect, it was hypothesized that sets of acceptable alternatives might be changed as a result of changes in unacceptable alternatives. This hypothesis was tested in a sample of undergraduates who were presented with fictional profiles of juvenile delinquents and then were asked whether they should be granted parole. The outcomes of approval voting changed merely as the result of a change in an alternative least preferred by all voters
Approval voting · Contrast (vision · Disapproval voting · Economics · Independence (probability theory · Independence of irrelevant alternatives · Microeconomics · Political science · Positive economics · Rationality · Social choice theory · Statistics · Voting · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Social Choice and Individual Values
The Theory of Committees and Elections
Majority Influence Process in Group Judgment
Group decision and social interaction
Contrast effects and judgments of physical attractiveness
Centrality in sociocognitive networks and social influence
The Responsiveness of Approval Voting to Political Circumstances
The Problem of Strategic Behavior under Approval Voting
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |