The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives: Exaggeration of Differences across the Political Spectrum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Graham, Jesse ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b   Haidt, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84871232914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050092     Document Type: Article

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