Are Group Cues Necessary? How Anger Makes Ethnocentrism Among Whites a Stronger Predictor of Racial and Immigration Policy Opinions

Political Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 635-657

  Banks, Antoine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Ethnocentrism; Racial and immigration policy opinions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954563313     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-016-9330-3     Document Type: Article

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