Is high self-esteem a path to the White House? The implicit theory of self-esteem and the willingness to vote for presidential candidates

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-19

  Zeigler Hill, Virgil ^a   Myers, Erin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit; Politics; Self esteem; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849414609     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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