Right-wing authoritarianism, fundamentalism and prejudice revisited: Removing suppression and statistical artefact

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 592-597

  Mavor, Kenneth I ^a   Macleod, Cari J ^a   Boal, Miranda J ^a   Louis, Winnifred R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fundamentalism; Prejudice; Religiosity; Right wing authoritarianism; Statistical artefact

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749103023     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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