Social cognition and democracy: The relationship between system justification, just world beliefs, authoritarianism, need for closure, and need for cognition in Hungary

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 197-219

  Kelemen, László ^a   Szabó, Zsolt Péter ^a   Mészáros, Noémi Zsuzsanna ^a   László, János ^b   Forgas, Josef P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Cognitive style; Just world hypothesis; Need for closure; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015456987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21953325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v2i1.208     Document Type: Article

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