What Your Polling Place Says About You

By The Daily Dish

By Patrick Appel

Auren Hoffman writes:

Jonah Berger, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of Business, conducted a terrific study where he demonstrates that where people vote affects how they vote. Essentially, people whose voting booth is located in a church are more likely to put more weight into social issues, people voting in fire houses care more about safety, and people voting in a school tend to put more weight on things like education.

(Hat tip: Tyler Cowen)

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