Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2009, Pages 307-337

  Jost, John T ^a   Federico, Christopher M ^b   Napier, Jaime L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Motivated social cognition; Political orientation; System justification

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; AUTHORITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE; AUTHORITARIANISM; CULTURE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60549113915     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163600     Document Type: Review

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