Cognitive salience of subjugation and the ideological justification of U.S. geopolitical dominance in Japan

Social Justice Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 298-311

  Yoshimura, Kasumi ^a   Hardin, Curtis D ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Geopolitical attitudes; Outgroup favoritism; Political ideology; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349238634     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-009-0102-7     Document Type: Article

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