Abstract:
What predicts voting against mainstream politics? We examined how self-perceived and actual political knowledge predicts anti-establishment voting in the context of a Dutch referendum (Study 1), and the EU refugee crisis (Study 2). Results revealed that anti-establishment voting emerges from increased self-perceived knowledge, but decreased (Study 1) or equal (Study 2) actual knowledge.
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Dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen
VU Amsterdam
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology
Van der Boechorststraat 1
1081BT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telephone: (+31)20-5988851
Email: j.w.van.prooijen@vu.nl
Website: www.janwillemvanprooijen.com
* President of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)
* Associate Editor at PSPB
* New Books:
- Van Prooijen, J.-W. (2018). The moral punishment instinct. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Van Prooijen, J.-W. (2018). The psychology of conspiracy theories. Oxon, UK: Routledge.