On the relationship between attitude involvement and attitude accessibility: Toward a cognitive-motivational model of political information processing

Political Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-106

  Lavine, Howard ^a   Borgida, Eugene ^b   Sullivan, John L ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stt Univ of New York at Stony B ^*

Author keywords

Attitude accessibility; Attitude involvement; Political information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034144928     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00178     Document Type: Article

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