Experimental Tests of an Attitudinal Theory of the Gender Gap in Voting

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1245-1258

  Eagly, Alice H ^a   Diekman, Amanda B ^b,c   Schneider, Monica C ^a   Kulesa, Patrick ^a,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Survey Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Gender; Sex differences; Voting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLITICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141653952     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203255765     Document Type: Article

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