Gender, Rationality, and Base-Rate Explanations for Increasing Trends

Communication Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 737-765

  Berger, Charles R ^a   Lee, Eun Ju ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apprehension; Base rate explanations; Gender; Increasing trends; News reports; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242719776     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650203258282     Document Type: Review

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