Social vigilantism (SV) is the tendency to believe one's beliefs are superior to others' and to attempt to impress one's beliefs onto others. With an undergraduate psychology student sample (N = 209), we used correlational methods with both self-report and behavioral measures to investigate SV's prediction of the amount of information used when making voting decisions as well as methods used to defend those decisions against challenge. SV did not correlate with the amount of information used to make voting decisions, indicating higher levels of SV are not associated with necessarily better informed opinions. SV did uniquely predict the use of six resistance strategies to defend voting decisions against challenges. These results suggest higher levels of SV are associated with greater tendencies to disseminate and defend one's beliefs, regardless of how well-informed those beliefs are.

社会警惕主义（SV）是一种倾向，即相信一个人的信念要优于另一个人，并试图将一个人的信念强加于他人。带有本科心理学的学生样本（N = 209），我们将相关方法与自我报告和行为措施一起使用，以调查SV对做出投票决定时使用的信息量的预测，以及用于保护这些决定免受挑战的方法。SV与用于做出投票决定的信息量不相关，这表明SV的较高级别与必要的更好的见解无关。SV确实独特地预测了使用六种抵抗策略来捍卫投票决策免受挑战。这些结果表明，较高的SV水平与更大的传播和捍卫自己的信念的倾向相关，而不论这些信念的知情程度如何。