Choices about political candidates and issues are inherently limited and imperfect, leading many people to feel mixed emotions, and even conflicting opinions, about which candidate or position they prefer. In general, being ambivalent reduces political participation. For example, the more ambivalent a person is about candidates in an election, the less likely that person is to vote. We are social psychologists who study how people’s beliefs affect their behavior. In a new article in the journal Science Advances, we find something that runs counter to that trend of uninvolved ambivalence: The m…