Ardent, but informed? Social vigilantism and the dissemination and defense of political decisions

Volume: 179, Pages: 110887 - 110887
Published: Sep 1, 2021
Abstract
Social vigilantism (SV) is the tendency to believe one's beliefs are superior to others' and to attempt to impress one's beliefs onto others. With an undergraduate psychology student sample ( N = 209), we used correlational methods with both self-report and behavioral measures to investigate SV's prediction of the amount of information used when making voting decisions as well as methods used to defend those decisions against challenge. SV did...
Paper Details
Title
Ardent, but informed? Social vigilantism and the dissemination and defense of political decisions
Published Date
Sep 1, 2021
Volume
179
Pages
110887 - 110887
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