Is ideology the enemy of inquiry? Examining the link between political orientation and lack of interest in novel data

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 63, Issue , 2016, Pages 123-132

  Tullett, Alexa M ^a   Hart, William P ^a   Feinberg, Matthew ^b   Fetterman, Zachary J ^a   Gottlieb, Sara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information exposure; Motivated cognition; Political orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976347050     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.06.018     Document Type: Article

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