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“Soft” Versus “Hard” Psychological Science: Biased Evaluations of Scientific Evidence That Threatens or Supports a Strongly Held Political Identity

Geoffrey D. Munro Towson UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cynthia A. Munro Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Pages 533-543 | Published online: 03 Nov 2014

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