Cortisol and Obama-Trump Voting: The Link between Chronic Stress and “Risky” Candidates

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Brief Overview

I use population health datasets and voting data to draw a link between chronic stress and voting for risky candidates. The analysis is done at the community level and will later be supplemented by interview data to hopefully unearth a causal link.

Author

• Emily Lucinda Kurtz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities