Whom Do Words Hurt? Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Verbal Overshadowing

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1998, Pages

  Ryan, Robert S ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 0000061779     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199812)12:73.3.co;2-m     Document Type: Article

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