Making sense of candidates: Partisanship, ideology, and issues as guides to judgment

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-23

  Huckfeldt, Robert ^a   Mondak, Jeffery J ^b   Craw, Michael ^c   Mendez, Jeanette Morehouse ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Heuristic; Response latency

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; WAR;

EID: 15744399857     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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