Conceptual beliefs about human values and their implications: Human nature beliefs predict value importance, value trade-offs, and responses to value-laden rhetoric

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 351-367

  Bain, Paul G ^a,b   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^a   Haslam, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human nature; Human values; Natural kinds; Rhetoric; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 33747163599     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.2.351     Document Type: Article

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