Physiological responses and partisan bias: Beyond self-reported measures of party identification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Petersen, Michael Bang ^a   Giessing, Ann ^a   Nielsen, Jesper ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; ADULT; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959314226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126922     Document Type: Article

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