The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses

We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). The latter method allows the subjects to approve of as many alternatives as they...

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Autores principales:	Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani, Jaume García-Segarra
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	gains losses framing payoff valence plurality voting approval voting Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d375e3a19bbd4a3f82ac983480dad6e62021-11-30T19:58:10ZThe Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.737225https://doaj.org/article/d375e3a19bbd4a3f82ac983480dad6e62021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.737225/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). The latter method allows the subjects to approve of as many alternatives as they wish and has been shown to eliminate the incentives to vote strategically. For both methods, we observe that voters express higher support for egalitarian allocations (and lower support for selfish options) when sharing gains than when sharing losses. Moreover, the average number of approved alternatives per ballot is higher when distributions are framed in terms of gains than when they are framed in terms of losses. We also discuss under which circumstances the shift in voting behavior is more likely to produce changes in the electoral outcome. The results suggest that framing manipulations (payoff valence) can significantly impact voting behavior.Carlos Alós-FerrerMichele GaragnaniJaume García-SegarraFrontiers Media S.A.articlegainslossesframingpayoff valenceplurality votingapproval votingPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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spellingShingle	gains losses framing payoff valence plurality voting approval voting Psychology BF1-990 Carlos Alós-Ferrer Michele Garagnani Jaume García-Segarra The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
description	We study how payoff valence affects voting behavior on the distribution of monetary outcomes framed as gains or losses in a group when using standard plurality voting (PV) procedures and when using approval voting (AV). The latter method allows the subjects to approve of as many alternatives as they wish and has been shown to eliminate the incentives to vote strategically. For both methods, we observe that voters express higher support for egalitarian allocations (and lower support for selfish options) when sharing gains than when sharing losses. Moreover, the average number of approved alternatives per ballot is higher when distributions are framed in terms of gains than when they are framed in terms of losses. We also discuss under which circumstances the shift in voting behavior is more likely to produce changes in the electoral outcome. The results suggest that framing manipulations (payoff valence) can significantly impact voting behavior.
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author	Carlos Alós-Ferrer Michele Garagnani Jaume García-Segarra
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title	The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
title_short	The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
title_full	The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
title_fullStr	The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
title_full_unstemmed	The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses
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publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses

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