Science Denial Across the Political Divide: Liberals and Conservatives Are Similarly Motivated to Deny Attitude-Inconsistent Science

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Social Psychological and Personality Science

• Publication date

  2018-11-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1948550617731500
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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