Are Independents Just Partisans In Disguise?

… Brian Nosek is a psychologist at the University of Virginia. Along with graduate student Carlee Beth Hawkins, Nosek studies why people don’t always do what they say they want to do — why there is a gap in many aspects of human behavior between what people intend to do and what they actually do.

Nosek and Hawkins believed this disconnect explains why many independents aren’t independent when it comes to voting. [cont.]

Shankar Vedantam, NPR