Partisan Identification as a Predictor of Cortisol Response to Election News

Political Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 447-460

  Blanton, Hart ^a   Strauts, Erin ^a   Perez, Marisol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cortisol; partisanship; political attitudes; political communication; psychological stress; social stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868150500     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2012.736239     Document Type: Article

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