The political left rolls with the good and the political right confronts the bad: Connecting physiology and cognition to preferences

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1589, 2012, Pages 640-649

  Dodd, Michael D ^a   Balzer, Amanda ^a   Jacobs, Carly M ^a   Gruszczynski, Michael W ^a   Smith, Kevin B ^a   Hibbing, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Physiology; Politics

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL REFORM; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

EID: 84863393860     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0268     Document Type: Article

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