Testing Our Quasi-Statistical Sense: News Use, Political Knowledge, and False Projection

Political Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 729-747

  Gvirsman, Shira Dvir ^a  

^a NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Motivated reasoning; News exposure; Political knowledge; Projection; Public opinion perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958760113     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12203     Document Type: Article

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