"Not for All the Tea in China!" Political Ideology and the Avoidance of Dissonance-Arousing Situations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Nam, H Hannah ^a   Jost, John T ^a   Van Bavel, Jay J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEVERAGE; CONFLICT; CONSERVATIVE GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSONANCE AROUSING SITUATION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; LIBERAL GROUP; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NAMED GROUPS OF PERSONS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REPLICATION STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHINA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; TEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876448596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059837     Document Type: Article

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