An Ideological House of Mirrors: Political Stereotypes as Exaggerations of Motivated Social Cognition Differences

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 201-209

  Scherer, Aaron M ^a   Windschitl, Paul D ^a   Graham, Jesse ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

individual differences; motivated social cognition; politics; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922823925     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614549385     Document Type: Article

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