Experiments on the automaticity of political beliefs and attitudes

Political Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-371

  Burdein, Inna ^a   Lodge, Milton ^a   Taber, Charles ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Automaticity; Experimentation; Implicit attitudes; Political cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745319374     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00504.x     Document Type: Review

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