This presentation depicts the history of academic thought on voter turnout and shows how recent neuroscience has changed the prevailing wisdom on the subject. While political science scholars of the 70’s and 80’s believed voters were rational calculators, neuroscience has shown that emotion and narrative play a strong role in this process. This presentation was created by Michael Mermelstein for Dr. Michael Shermer’s course, “Evolution, Economics & the Brain” taught at Claremont Graduate University during the spring 2012 semester.
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Topics addressed: critical thinking and skepticism
Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations • student projects and papers
Academic discipline: history • neuroscience • psychology
Academic level: college and university
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Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations • student projects and papers
Academic discipline: history • neuroscience • psychology
Academic level: college and university
“The American Electorate is to uniformed and uninterested in politics to bother to vote. ”
I gave up after this sentence.