Motivated Social Cognition and Ideology: Is Attention to Elite Discourse a Prerequisite for Epistemically Motivated Political Affinities?

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Federico, Christopher M ^a   Goren, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Closure; Cognition; Elite discourse; Epistemic motivation; Political choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920366808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.011     Document Type: Chapter

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