Change we can believe in: Using perceptions of changeability to promote system-change motives over system-justification motives in information search

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-140

  Johnson, India R ^a   Fujita, Kentaro ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

changeability; information search; motivation; social cognition; system change; system justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856428100     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611423670     Document Type: Article

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