How ideological migration geographically segregates groups

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-14

  Motyl, Matt ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^b   Oishi, Shigehiro ^a   Trawalter, Sophie ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideology; Migration; Politics; Residential mobility; Social ecology; Voting behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888045256     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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