Illegal accounts but clean slates? Confirmatory information search and evaluation in the context of the political party donation scandal in Germany;Schwarze kassen, weiße westen? Konfirmatorische informationssuche und -bewertung im kontext der parteispendenaffäre der CDU

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-61

  Jonas, Eva ^a   Graupmann, Verena ^a   Fischer, Peter ^a   Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a   Frey, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Dissonance theory; Illusion of objectivity; Information search and evaluation; Political party donation scandal

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044456169     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.34.1.47     Document Type: Article

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