" Experiments are a central methodology in the social sciences. Scholars from every
discipline regularly turn to them. Practitioners rely on experimental evidence in evaluating …

How do citizens change their voting decisions after their communities experience
catastrophic violent events? The literature on the behavioral effects of violence, on the one …

International football matches are among the highest manifestations of national pride and
unity that a country can have in peaceful times. However, some anecdotal evidence …

To succeed as a self-correcting enterprise, scientific communities cannot wall off any part of
themselves from reevaluation and potential revision. One revelation of the open science …

We examine whether politically irrelevant events can cause conflicts, by analyzing the
effects of professional football games in Europe on protests in Africa—an unintended …

How well do voters hold politicians accountable? Although a long-standing research
tradition claims that elections are effective tools for the sanctioning and selection of leaders …

How might irrelevant events infiltrate voting decisions? The current research introduces a
new mechanism—regulatory focus—by which incidental environmental factors can affect …

The expectation that voters behave rationally has been challenged through studies
suggesting that “irrelevant events” like natural disasters and sports results change voting …

A growing number of studies discuss the impact of non-political factors on the political
success of incumbents. Theoretically, this literature addresses core ideas about electoral …

Despite the intense debate over whether politically irrelevant events (eg, football games)
influence voter attitudes, the existing literature predominantly focuses on cases in the US …