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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections: Election Day Edition

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Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week, featuring election-day science:

Stressed out waiting for the results? According to Scicurious, It’s not the stress that counts, it’s whether you can control it.

Is it possible to predict how "undecided voters" will decide? Are they even really undecided to begin with? Melanie Tannenbaum has answers.


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"Politics and emotions are deeply intertwined," argues Maya Kuehn at Psych Your Mind. How do these experiences at the intersection of politics and emotions affect the way you understand political messages? How do they affect your own behavior?

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.

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