Ideology and climate change denial

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-65

  Häkkinen, Kirsti ^a   Akrami, Nazar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ideology and climate change denial; Political orientation; Right wing authoritarianism; Social dominance orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904115089     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.030     Document Type: Article

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