I got an e-mail yesterday from some students at NYU asking if I'd post a link to a survey they're doing, trying to learn why people vote the way they do. They ask that the post be kept comment-free in order to avoid newer survey participants' attitudes being swayed by the responses of those who've already taken it.
It sounded interesting, so I thought I'd post the link.
Here's their suggested blurb:
A research team from the Psychology Department at New York University, headed by Professor Yaacov Trope and supported by the National Science Foundation, is investigating the cognitive causes of voting behavior, political preferences, and candidate evaluations throughout the course of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. This stage of the study focuses on the information people use to inform evaluations during the last few weeks before the election. They seek respondents of all political leanings from all over the country (and from the rest of the world) to complete a 15-minute questionnaire, the responses to which will be completely anonymous...