An attributional analysis of reactions to poverty: The political ideology of the giver and the perceived morality of the receiver

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-213

  Weiner, Bernard ^a   Osborne, Danny ^a   Rudolph, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

attribution; emotion; helping; justice; morality; political psychology; prosocial behavior; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953648264     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868310387615     Document Type: Article

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