The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever "Get It"?

Political Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 563-593

  Redlawsk, David P ^a   Civettini, Andrew J W ^b   Emmerson, Karen M ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Lake Research Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective intelligence; Candidate evaluation; Motivated reasoning; Process tracing; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955168170     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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