The politics of fear: Is there an ideological asymmetry in existential motivation?

Social Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 324-353

  Jost, John T ^a   Stern, Chadly ^b   Rule, Nicholas O ^c   Sterling, Joanna ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existential motivation; Fear; Meta analysis; Political conservatism; Threat

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BINDING; DATA BASE; DEATH; EXPOSURE; FEAR; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; TERRORISM;

EID: 85025165373     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2017.35.4.324     Document Type: Article

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