Predicting the vote through implicit and explicit attitudes: A field research

Political Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-274

  Roccato, Michele ^a   Zogmaister, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electoral polls; Forecast; Implicit Association Test; Implicit attitudes; Voting behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952691283     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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