Personal political salience as a self-schema: Consequences for political information processing

Political Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 965-976

  Duncan, Lauren E ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Personal political salience; Political information processing; Political self schema

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444448432     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2005.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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