Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title Title
PLoS ONE
Volume
10
Issue
9
Abstract
Previous research finds that voting is a socially stressful activity associated with increases in cortisol levels. Here we extend this research by investigating whether different voting modalities have differential effects on the stress response to voting. Results from a field experiment conducted during the 2012 presidential elections strongly suggest that traditional “at the polls” voting is more stressful, as measured by increases in cortisol levels, than voting at home by mail-in ballot or engaging in comparable non-political social activities. These findings imply that increased low-stress voting options such as mail-in ballots may increase political participation among individuals who are sensitive to social stressors.
Department
Department of Political Science
Original Publication Date
9-2015
DOI of published version
10.1371/journal.pone.0135289
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library
Copyright
©2015 Neiman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Date Digital
2015
Language
EN
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Neiman, Jayme; Gieseffi, Karl; Smith, Kevin; French, Jeffrey; Waismel-Manor, Israel; and Hibbing, John, "Voting at Home Is Associated with Lower Cortisol than Voting at the Polls" (2015). Faculty Publications. 1.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pol_facpub/1
Comments
Published in PLoS ONE, 10, no.9 (2015), e0135289. Publlished by the Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135289