Social proof and voting behavior

Intervention · Voting Behavior

Intervention Description

In a large-scale Facebook experiment (over 61 million people) it was shown that people who receive social proof elements as part of their “go and vote” ad (showing which of their friends have voted) are significantly more likely to vote.

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