The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a function of political sophistication

Political Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-600

  Miller, Patrick R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Emotion; Iraq war; Latency; Sophistication; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960157056     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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