The Unthinking or Confident Extremist? Political Extremists Are More Likely Than Moderates to Reject Experimenter-Generated Anchors

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-202

  Brandt, Mark J ^a   Evans, Anthony M ^a   Crawford, Jarret T ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; decision making; open data; open materials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLITICS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84922703557     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614559730     Document Type: Article

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