Physiological responses and political behavior: Three reproductions using a novel dataset

Research and Politics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Knoll, Benjamin R ^a   O’Daniel, Tyler J ^b   Cusato, Brian ^a  

^a CENTRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Political behavior; Political biology; Political physiology; SCL; Skin conductance; Threat response

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019221267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053168015621328     Document Type: Article

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