Emotion priming and attributions for terrorism: Americans' reactions in a national field experiment

Political Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-298

  Small, Deborah A ^a,c   Lerner, Jennifer S ^b   Fischhoff, Baruch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Attribution; Emotion; Sadness; September 11; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645322683     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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