Calendrier du 17 novembre 2023
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 17/11/2023 de 13:00 à 14:00
R1-09
DEHOUCK Lucile (PSE)
Thirsting for Solutions: The Impact of Water Scarcity on Migration
Behavior Working Group
Du 17/11/2023 de 10:00 à 11:00
SALLE 115 , MSE
VARDAXOGLOU Laurence(PSE)
SAVEY Lily ()
Effect of misinformation on voting in the laboratory
For health-related matters, being misinformed leads individuals to make bad decisions. In politics, it is less obvious. Although misinformation has been shown to influence voting decisions, this is not necessarily a deviation from rational voting. An individual might indeed be tricked into a non-rational voting decision, or motivated to opt for the candidate who maximises the utility of their vote. Our aim is to explore the extent to which different kinds of misinformation obstruct rational voting. We propose to study rational voting in the laboratory, as it allows us to control for important factors that are inevitably imprecisely measured using survey data.