Does Anxiety Improve Voters' Decision Making?

Political Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-361

  Ladd, Jonathan Mcdonald ^a   Lenz, Gabriel S ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotions; Issue voting; Partisan identification; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952089789     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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