Bleeding-heart liberals and hard-hearted conservatives: Subtle political dehumanization through differential attributions of human nature and human uniqueness traits

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-104

  Crawford, Jarret T ^a   Modri, Sean A ^a   Motyl, Matt ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservatives; Dehumanization; Ideology; Intergroup relations; Liberals; Stereotype content; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017356320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21953325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v1i1.184     Document Type: Article

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