Do Implicit Attitudes Predict Actual Voting Behavior Particularly for Undecided Voters?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Friese, Malte ^a   Smith, Colin Tucker ^b   Plischke, Thomas ^c   Bluemke, Matthias ^d   Nosek, Brian A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EXPLICIT ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT ATTITUDE; MALE; POLITICS; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POLITICS;

EID: 84865606905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044130     Document Type: Article

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