American Moral Exceptionalism

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Uhlmann, Eric Luis ^a   Poehlman, T Andrew ^b   Bargh, John A ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit puritanism; Moral exceptionalism; Puritan Protestants; Work ethic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920425599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.002     Document Type: Chapter

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