Anxious About Social Violence: The Emotional Underpinnings of Support for Gun Control.
Objective: We theorize that anxiety (fear) related to mass shootings and social violence increases support for gun control among the American public. Methods: We support our theory with a regression discontinuity analysis based on an actual mass shooting, observational analyses from the same data se...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 2101 - 2121 |
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