Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 730 East Beach Blvd., Long Beach, MS 39560, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2011 Feb;22(2):235-42. doi: 10.1177/0956797610393746. Epub 2010 Dec 21.
A series of studies examined whether political participation can emerge from general patterns of indiscriminate activity. In the first two studies, general action tendencies were measured by combining national and state-level indicators of high activity (e.g., impulsiveness, pace of life, and physical activity) from international and U.S. data. This action-tendency index positively correlated with a measure of political participation that consisted of voting behaviors and participation in political demonstrations. The following two experimental studies indicated that participants exposed to action words (e.g., go, move) had stronger intentions to vote in an upcoming election and volunteered more time to make phone calls on behalf of a university policy than participants exposed to inaction words did (e.g., relax, stop). These studies suggest that political participation can be predicted from general tendencies toward activity present at the national and state levels, as well as from verbal prompts suggestive of activity.
一系列研究考察了政治参与是否可以从普遍的无差别活动模式中产生。在前两项研究中，通过结合国际和美国数据中关于高活跃度的国家和州级指标（例如冲动、生活节奏和身体活动），测量了一般的行为倾向。这种行为倾向指数与政治参与的衡量标准呈正相关，该衡量标准包括投票行为和参与政治示威活动。接下来的两项实验研究表明，与接触到无行动词语（例如 relax，stop）的参与者相比，接触到行动词语（例如 go，move）的参与者在即将举行的选举中投票的意愿更强，并且自愿花更多时间代表大学政策打电话的意愿更强。这些研究表明，政治参与可以从国家和州层面普遍存在的活动倾向以及暗示活动的言语提示中预测。
