The Effects of Need for Cognition and Need for Affect on Partisan Evaluations

Political Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-42

  Arceneaux, Kevin ^a   Vander Wielen, Ryan J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing; Motivated reasoning; Need for affect; Need for cognition; Partisanship; Party evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872812096     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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