In this study, we will investigate how expectations regarding the relationship between positivity and negativity may be informing election choices of leftist, left-wing, progressive, Democratic, and liberal-identifying individuals. We also aim to refine understanding of decision-making processes by collecting information about participants’ social identities (e.g., race, class, gender), experiences (e.g., activism participation), depression symptoms, and beliefs (e.g., political cynicism, social justice orientation). We hypothesize that participants likely to devalue reward will (I) report having been less likely and happy to vote for Biden-Harris, but more likely and happy to vote for Harris and Harris-Walz; (II) report lower felt negativity while imagining Trump-Vance winning; (III) report having been more likely to vote third-party before Biden stepped down; and (IV) that political cynicism will moderate reward devaluation. We outline our plans to assess our hypotheses via moderation analyses and nonparametric correlations, as well as propose exploratory analyses.