Attribution theory and Arab images of the Gulf war

Political Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 271-292

  Heradstveit, Daniel ^a   Bonham, G Matthew ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Arab elites; Attribution theory; Dispositional attributions; Fundamental attribution error; Gulf war; Perception; Saddam Hussein; Situational attributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030153441     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3791811     Document Type: Article

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