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ArticlePsychological science2025

"Stop the Count!"-How Reporting Partial Election Results Fuels Beliefs in Election Fraud.

André Vaz, Moritz Ingendahl, André Mata, Hans Alves

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Article in Psychological science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

André VazFaculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum.ORCID 0000-0003-3352-5455
Moritz IngendahlFaculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum.ORCID 0000-0002-2124-0754
André MataResearch Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.ORCID 0000-0001-5087-4919
Hans AlvesFaculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum.ORCID 0000-0003-1853-1224

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In seven studies, we investigated how reporting partial vote counts influences perceptions of election legitimacy. Beliefs in election fraud, as in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, may be fueled by the

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FraudPoliticsAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedUnited KingdomUnited StatesYoung Adult2020 U.S. presidential electioncognitive biascumulative redundancy biaselectoral fraudvote reporting

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PMID40705772
PMCPMC13428915

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