Managing the terror of a dangerous world: Political attitudes as predictors of mental health stigma

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  International Journal of Social Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2016-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0020764015589131PMID 26092546
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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