Social attitudes predict biases in geographic knowledge

Professional Geographer

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 258-269

  Kerkman, Dennis D ^a   Stea, David ^b   Norris, Karen ^b   Rice, Jennifer L ^b  

^a PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Borders; Diversity; Geographic distortions

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; STUDENT;

CANADA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942685069     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05602009.x     Document Type: Article

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