The Gradual Threshold Model of Ambivalence: Relating the Positive and Negative Bases of Attitudes to Subjective Ambivalence

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-449

  Priester, Joseph R ^a   Petty, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030240345     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.3.431     Document Type: Article

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