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...

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Published in:	Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 2101 - 2121
Main Authors:	Filindra, Alexandra, Collingwood, Loren, Kaplan, Noah J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2020
Subjects:	Intergenerational mobility Class differences Sociodemographic factors Political trust (in government) United States politics & government
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost