Essays about: "Erika Mårtensson"

Found 1 essay containing the words Erika Mårtensson.

  1. 1. Individual Differences in (Mis)perceptions of Economic Inequality: The Role of Ideology, Abstraction, News Consumption and Rationality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Erika Mårtensson; [2017]
    Keywords : ideology; system justification; construal level theory; media; rationality; cognitive reflection; economic inequality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate how and why people misperceive the magnitude of economic differences. It was hypothesized that news consumption frequency, rationality and abstract-mindedness would predict accuracy in estimations of economic differences; and that economic ideology motivation would predict inaccuracy in estimations of economic differences. READ MORE