The ideologically objectionable premise model: Predicting biased political judgments on the left and right

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-151

  Crawford, Jarret T ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Motivated reasoning; Political attitudes; Political judgment; Right wing authoritarianism; Social dominance orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655184178     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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