Speaking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths: Biased Political Judgments Within (and Between) Individuals

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 422-430

  Crawford, Jarret T ^a   Kay, Sophie A ^b   Duke, Kristen E ^c  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

between subjects design; ideological bias; motivated reasoning; political ideology; within subjects design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926322202     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614566858     Document Type: Article

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