The intuitive traditionalist: How biases for existence and longevity promote the Status Quo

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-104

  Eidelman, Scott ^a   Crandall, Christian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence bias; Heuristics; Longevity bias; Naturalistic fallacy; Status quo maintenance; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904703145     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800284-1.00002-3     Document Type: Chapter

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