About the Authors

Bregje Holleman

Contributed equally to this work with: Bregje Holleman, Naomi Kamoen

b.holleman@uu.nl

Affiliation Uil-OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Naomi Kamoen

Contributed equally to this work with: Bregje Holleman, Naomi Kamoen

Affiliations Uil-OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, TiCC, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

André Krouwel

Affiliations Social-Cultural Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Kieskompas bv., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jasper van de Pol

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Claes de Vreese

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

One of the authors (AK) is the director of Kieskompas bv, a commercial Voting Advice Application builder, with which we cooperated in collecting the data for our research. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BH CDV NK. Data curation: NK BH. Formal analysis: NK BH. Funding acquisition: BH CDV. Investigation: BH NK CDV JVDP AK. Methodology: BH CDV NK JVDP. Project administration: BH. Resources: AK BH NK. Software: NK JVDP AK. Supervision: BH CDV. Validation: AK NK. Visualization: BH AK. Writing – original draft: BH NK. Writing – review & editing: BH NK JVDP CDV AK.