All against all: How beliefs about human nature shape foreign policy opinions

Political Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-58

  Brewer, Paul R ^a   Steenbergen, Marco R ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cynicism; Foreign policy opinions; Heuristics; Human nature; Isolationism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036489082     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00269     Document Type: Article

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