Motivated suspicion: Asymmetrical attributions of the behavior of political ingroup and outgroup members

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-184

  Munro, Geoffrey D ^a   Weih, Carrie ^a   Tsai, Jeffrey ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952478163     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973531003738551     Document Type: Article

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