On the Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Thorisdottir, Hulda ^a   Jost, John T ^b   Kay, Aaron C ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Ideology; Social construction; System justification; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920368115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.001     Document Type: Chapter

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