A test of the flexible ideology hypothesis: System justification motives interact with ideological cueing to predict political judgments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 755-758

  Zhu, Luke Lei ^a   Kay, Aaron C ^b   Eibach, Richard P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equality; Ideology; Meritocracy; System dependence; System justification theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877023455     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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