Language as a Cognitive and Behavioral Structuring Resource: Question—Answer Exchanges

European Review of Social Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-104

  Semin, Gün R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0002533116     PISSN: 10463283     EISSN: 1479277X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14792772043000004     Document Type: Article

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