Self-immunization: Evidence of automatic self-stabilizing concept adaptation;Selbstkonzept-immunisierung: Evidenz für automatische selbstbildstabilisierende begriffsanpassungen

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-223

  Wentura, Dirk ^a   Greve, Werner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Kriminologisches Forsch Inst N   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Self concept; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030503009     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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