Frontiers, Germs, and Nonconformist Voting

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 832-837

  Varnum, Michael E W ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conformity; frontiers; pathogen prevalence; United States; voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878752713     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022112466591     Document Type: Article

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