Dispositions, scripts, or motivated correction? Understanding ideological differences in explanations for social problems

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 470-487

  Skitka, Linda J ^a   Mullen, Elizabeth ^a   Griffin, Thomas ^a   Hutchinson, Susan ^a   Chamberlin, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAME; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036692077     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.2.470     Document Type: Review

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