Ideological Differences in Epistemic Motivation: Implications for Attitude Structure, Depth of Information Processing, Susceptibility to Persuasion, and Stereotyping

Advances in Motivation Science

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-231

  Jost, John T ^a   Krochik, Margarita ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Liberalism; Motivated reasoning; Need for cognition; Openness; Persuasion; Political ideology; Self deception; Systematic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925734633     PISSN: 22150919     EISSN: 22150927     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.adms.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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