Rigidity of the Economic Right? Menu-Independent and Menu-Dependent Influences of Psychological Dispositions on Political Attitudes

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 137-142

  Malka, Ariel ^a   Soto, Christopher J ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

conservatism; ideology; political attitudes; political psychology; rigidity of the right

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926470073     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414556340     Document Type: Article

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