Polarized Attitudes Toward the Ground Zero Mosque are Reduced by High-Level Construal

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 244-250

  Yang, Daniel Y J ^a   Preston, Jesse Lee ^a   Hernandez, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

abstract thinking; Ground Zero Mosque; mental construal; political ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874179120     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612446973     Document Type: Article

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