A Model of Political Judgment: An Agent-Based Simulation of Candidate Evaluation

Sung-youn Kim ()

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2011, vol. 14, issue 2, 3

Abstract: This paper advances Kim, Taber, and Lodge's work (2010). Specifically, it is shown here that the psychological model of political judgment proposed by Kim et al (2010) is consistent with a set of well-known empirical regularities repeatedly found in electoral and psychological researches, that the model in general implies motivated reasoning - discounting contradictory information to the prior while accepting consistent information more or less at its face value - under general conditions, and that (prior) evaluative affect towards candidates plays a fundamental role in this process. It is also discussed the implication of motivated reasoning in accounting for the responsiveness, persistence, and polarization of candidate evaluation often observed in elections.

Keywords: Candidate Evaluation; Election; Cognition and Affect; Political Judgment; ACT-r (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03-31
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