Political attitudes vary with physiological traits

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5896, 2008, Pages 1667-1670

  Oxley, Douglas R ^a   Smith, Kevin B ^a   Alford, John R ^b   Hibbing, Matthew V ^c   Miller, Jennifer L ^a   Scalora, Mario ^a   Hatemi, Peter K ^d   Hibbing, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE SPENDING; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IMMIGRATION POLICY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLITICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; RETINA IMAGE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; WAR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BLINKING; CULTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL VALUES; STARTLE REACTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52249083013     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157627     Document Type: Article

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