Psychological Motives and Political Orientation - The Left, the Right, and the Rigid: Comment on Jost et al. (2003)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 376-382

  Greenberg, Jeff ^a   Jonas, Eva ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NOTE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0038507594     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.376     Document Type: Review

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