Denial of anthropogenic climate change: Social dominance orientation helps explain the conservative male effect in Brazil and Sweden

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 98, Issue , 2016, Pages 184-187

  Jylhä, Kirsti M ^a   Cantal, Clara ^b   Akrami, Nazar ^a   Milfont, Taciano L ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change denial; Gender; Political conservatism; Social dominance orientation

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATH ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84963555229     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.020     Document Type: Article

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