Do you see any overlaps between Hassell and Settle’s work and Gadarian and Albertson’s work?

READ:
Hassell and Settle.pdf. 2017. “The Differential Effects of Stress on Voter Turnout.” Political
Psychology 38(3): 533-550.
LISTEN to podcast on “anxious politics” by Gadarian and Albertson, found
here:
https://www.scribd.com/podcast/419021500/Shana-Kushner-Gadarian-and-Bethany-AlbertsonAnxious-Politics-Democratic-Citizenship-in-a-Threatening-World-Cambridge-UP-2015-Shana-Kushner-Ga
At this stage of the course, we DO NOT expect you to understand all of the article, or the charts. This is
your PRELIMINARY reading of the article. To read this article thoroughly, you will need approximately
two and a half hours. It is NOT worthwhile to merely ‘skim’ the article, or to fake it through only reading
the abstract, etc.

DISCUSSION:
Respond to the assignment in this week’s General Discussion area in Blackboard.
1. What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable that the authors are
interested in studying?
2. What is some COMMON wisdom about this topic? (This is referred to as the “customary
explanation” and is found on p. 533.
3. Are stress and anxiety (as Gadarian and Albertson have studied it) the same thing or different
things?
4. Do you see any overlaps between Hassell and Settle’s work and Gadarian and Albertson’s work?
5. Is stress an emotion, like anxiety is?

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