Comparative judgments as a function of the direction of comparison versus word order

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 400-409

  Wänke, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0030363431     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297761     Document Type: Article

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