Mass response to the Lewinsky scandal: Motivated reasoning or Bayesian updating?

Political Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 135-159

  Fischle, Mark ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate evaluation; Motivated reasoning; Political scandal; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034147564     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895x.00181     Document Type: Article

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