{"id":2492,"date":"2006-08-10T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2006-08-10T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T10:57:56","slug":"where_you_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"Where You Vote Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mahalanobis.twoday.net\/stories\/2504960\/\">Mahalanobis<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Subtle environmental cues can influence decisions on issues of real consequence,&rdquo; write Jonah Berger and Marc Meredith, two doctoral students at Stanford&#8217;s Graduate School of Business, and S. Christian Wheeler, a Stanford marketing professor, in a paper (summary) reported in July&#8217;s SER. The &ldquo;environmental cues&rdquo; are surprising indeed: according to the authors, the polling places used by voters may influence their choices. One study showed voters in Arizona in 2000 were more likely to support a measure to increase the state sales tax, with the proceeds going to public education, if they voted in a school.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahalanobis: &#8220;Subtle environmental cues can influence decisions on issues of real consequence,&rdquo; write Jonah Berger and Marc Meredith, two doctoral students at Stanford&#8217;s Graduate School of Business, and S. Christian Wheeler, a Stanford marketing professor, in a paper (summary) reported in July&#8217;s SER. The &ldquo;environmental cues&rdquo; are surprising indeed: according to the authors, the polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}