Authoritarianism and its relationship with intuitive-experiential cognitive style and heuristic processing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-48

  Kemmelmeier, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Cognitive styles; Cognitive experiential self theory; Heuristic processing; Need for closure; Representativeness heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349784933     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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