Anxiety in voters spurs information-seeking that can break old voting habits

Evidence

Because a political campaign is a struggle between competing partisans, some citizens, though not all, experience the cut-and-thrust of politics as threatening. People unaroused will safely vote their standing choice while those pricked by anxiety will perk up, gather new information, and perhaps abandon their old habits. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1708

Because a political campaign is a struggle between competing partisans, some citizens, though not all, experience the cut-and-thrust of politics as threatening. People unaroused will safely vote their standing choice while those pricked by anxiety will perk up, gather new information, and perhaps abandon their old habits. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1708

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1708; John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 1708